Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet
Jean -Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet ( born August 19, 1757 Baton Rouge, Louisiana ( New France ); † December 17, 1797 in Constantine Opel ) was a politician and a French general, who distinguished himself in the First Coalition War, particularly during the siege of Mainz by Prussian and Austrian troops.
Life
As the son of a captain of infantry, he took in 1775 at age 18, as a sous - lieutenant in the American Revolutionary War in part.
In 1784 he went as a captain to Metz, France. From his uncle Bayet he inherits an estate in Corenc called Bachais and land in Sassenage (Isère), and adds from then on you Bayet to his nickname. In 1791, he was elected national deputy of the Isère and the Président of the Assembly. During the siege of Mainz ( 1793), he defended the city of Mainz, at the Général Kléber page prior to their surrender, what did not stop the reign of terror to imprison him.
During the Directoire, he became the Général en chef of the Armée des côtes de Cherbourg appointed. The end of 1795 he took over the Ministry of War, where Pierre Riel de Beurnonville acted as his aide, but left it on February 8, 1796 again. Shortly thereafter, Aubert Bayet received his nomination as Ambassador of France to the Sublime Porte in Constantinople Opel. There he renewed relations between France and Turkey (since January 1797). His adjutant to the Sublime Porte was Armand de Caulaincourt. On 17 December 1797 he died of a fever during his tenure as Ambassador of France. He was buried in the Pera district of the Ottoman capital. Today his grave is gone.
Work
- Loi Relative à la correction of décrets portant vente de biens nationaux, et qui suspend l' impression de ces mêmes décrets, donnée à Paris, le 6 mars 1791; J. M. Cuchet, Grenoble 1791