Dominique Martin Dupuy (1767 – 21 October 1798) was a

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. The son of a baker from

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, he engaged in the ''

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'' before the French Revolution. In 1791, he was

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in the 1st battalion of the

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regiment, where he was soon elected

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. He took part in the repression of royalist insurrections in Ardèche, then joined the Army of Italy, distinguishing himself at the

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, where he commanded the 32nd Line Infantry Demi-brigade. Military governor of

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in 1797, he accompanied

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in the

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, where he wrote, shortly after Pope Pius VI's death : "We are fooling Egyptians with our pretended interest for their religion; neither Bonaparte nor we believe in this religion more than we did in Pius the Defunct's one". He was murdered during the

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(1798). He had never ceased to correspond with the Jacobins from Toulouse.

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1767 births 1798 deaths Military personnel from Toulouse Military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars French Republican military leaders of the French Revolutionary Wars {{France-mil-bio-stub