Victor Claude Alexandre Fanneau de Lahorie ( Javron-les-Chapelles; 5 January 1766 -

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; 29 October 1812) was a French general, conspirator against

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, and godfather of

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Biography

Victor Fanneau de La Horie served the

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in the Army of the Rhine with Joseph Hugo and became close friends with the younger man. He was the godfather and namesake of Joseph's son

. He served in the revolutionary armies, but souring on

joined the Moreau conspiracy. When the plan fell apart in 1801, he was proscribed and went into hiding on the estate of Joseph Hugo. There the young Victor Hugo got to know the general. After fleeing abroad, he returned to France in 1808 and was arrested and held at

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. He was freed during the Malet coup of 1812, but after the coup's failure he was recaptured and executed.

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