Maurice Frimont, born 14 December 1747 in
Gondreville (
Meurthe-et-Moselle), youngest child of Dominique Frimont, a laborer at Gondreville, and Catherine Laurent, was a general of the
French Revolutionary Wars and, later
Napoleonic Wars.
Military service
* 18 March 18, 1764 King's Dragoon Regiment,
* 11 November 1768 Brigade of the Company of the Holy Cross
* 20 November 1776 ''
Chasseurs à Cheval
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* 20 March 1779 Squadron of Valencia, 1st Regiment of ''Chasseurs à Cheval''
* 24 September 1784 Warrant (officer) ''Chasseurs à Cheval''
* 14 May 1786 lieutenant in the same regiment May 14, 1786 ;
* 6 March 1788, second lieutenant in the Royal Regiment
Liège
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* 11 June 1788, second captain in the 12th Infantry Battalion
* 8 October 1793, assistant adjutants general to the Rhine army
He was promoted to Brigadier General on provisional
battlefield on 26 November 1793 by order of
representatives on missions from Lacoste and Baudot. On 24 June 1794 he received a letter of patent commission as a National Veteran, qualifying for public assistance, which documented 30 years of effective service. On 27 November 1794, he was confirmed in the rank of brigadier general. Subsequently, he participated in the campaigns of
1795
Events
January–June
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1796
Events
January–March
* January 16 – The first Dutch (and general) elections are held for the National Assembly of the Batavian Republic. (The next Dutch general elections are held in 1888.)
* February 1 – The capital ...
as part of the
Army of the Rhine and Moselle; he commanded one of the two brigades–16th Demi-brigade infantry de légère (3 battalions), 50th Demi-brigade infantry de ligne (3 battalions), and 7th Regiment Hussars (4 squadrons)–under
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[ Paul Gayant]
''Tableu des guerres de la Révolution, de 1792 à 1815''
Paulin, 1838, pp. 100–106. He was discharged on 13 February 1797 after more than 32 years of service. During the military reform of 1794 he was responsible for the general inspection of the filing of returns in
Lunéville
Lunéville ( ; German, obsolete: ''Lünstadt'' ) is a commune in the northeastern French department of Meurthe-et-Moselle.
It is a subprefecture of the department and lies on the river Meurthe at its confluence with the Vezouze.
History
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He married in 1797 to Amélie Suzanne Marie Christine Wilhelmine Neuwinger, who divorced him. On 17 August 1801 in Lunéville, he married Catherine Magnier, who gave him a daughter, Melanie. He died on 1 September 1811 in Lunéville.
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Frimont, Maurice
1747 births
1811 deaths
People from Moselle (department)
French military personnel of the French Revolutionary Wars