Claude François de Malet

Claude -François de Malet ( born June 28, 1754 Dole, Franche -Comté, † October 29, 1812 ) was a French general.

Malet came at the age of 16 years in the military service and placed himself in 1790 as a staunch supporter of the revolution at the head of the National Guard of his homeland. Later he went as captain for the Army of the Rhine. In 1799 he became brigadier general in the Alps army and went in 1805 to Italy, where he received the province of Pavia. Since Malet not denied his republicanism, he was deposed in 1807 and 1808 arrested.

During the campaign against Russia, he thought his time had come and tried to put his long -cherished plan for the overthrow of Napoleon into action. He fled into the night of 22 to October 23, 1812, together with the Abbé Jean -Baptiste Lafon from prison and sought the soldiers in the surrounding barracks stir. The commandant, General Pierre Augustin Hullin, he shared with the death of the emperor and the establishment of a provisional government. Since Hullin, however, was leery, Malet and his helpers from the general and his aides were overwhelmed.

The next day, Malet was with his comrades, the generals Emmanuel Maximilien -Joseph Guidal (1765-1812) and Victor -Claude -Alexandre de Fanneau Lahorie (1766-1812), before a military commission chaired by Comte Jean -François- Aimé Dejean tried, convicted and executed on 29 October 1812.