Armand Jehannot de Bartillat

Armand Louis Jean Jehannot de Bartillat, 3rd Marquis of Huriel-Bartillat, Count of Selles (23 November 1776 – 23 September 1842) was a French military officer and author.

Biography

Armand Jehannot de Bartillat was born in Paris, the son of Louis François Jehannot de Bartillat (1741–1792) and his wife Jeanne Marguerite de Maistre (1757–1846). He was only fourteen years old when he followed his father in the emigration in 1791. He joined the corps of men-at-arms on foot as soon as it was created; with him, he took part in the princes' campaign in 1792, and only left when he was dismissed. He was then attached to General Léonard-Alexis de Chalup, as aide-de-camp, from the month of August 1793, until his entry into the Broglie regiment, which took place in 1794, and from which he only left on 25 May 1795.

Immediately afterwards, he joined his uncle, the Comte d'Allonville, who was part of the Royal Army, where he served for about a year and a half. He joined the Royal Army of Maine, in 1799; maintained relations with the royal agency of the South; was charged by the lieutenant-general de Bourmont, of various missions.

He had also been ordered to command a legion of twelve hundred men, which he was to lead from Moulins, Bourges and Issoudun; but he was unable to carry out this order because of the pacification which took place in February 1800. On the return of Louis XVIII to his states, the Marquis de Bartillat was appointed second lieutenant of the king's bodyguards, in the Scottish company, by patent of 5 June 1814; knight of the royal and military order of Saint Louis, on 25 August following, and colonel, on 14 November of the same year, taking rank from 23 July 1799; followed the princes to the border of Flanders, in March 1815; he later joined the king in Ghent.

He was punished several times for his devotion, in particular by being detained for seven months at Vincennes in 1808 for having attempted to help the King of Spain, Ferdinand VII, to escape from Valençay, for which the prince compensated him by awarding him the decoration of the Knight's Cross of the Order of Charles III on 28 November 1815.

In 1823, he took part in the Spanish campaign as a staff colonel; during the French expedition against Algiers in 1830, the Marquis de Bartillat was commander of the headquarters for the duration of the campaign, and it was he who was charged with the mission of bringing the banners taken from the Algerians to the government: Once this mission was accomplished, the Marquis de Bartillat left the service, as the new banner of France was unsympathetic to him.

Armand Jehannot de Bartillat died in Bourges at the age of 65.

Private life

On 30 June 1807 he married in Paris to Joséphine de Béthune Hesdigneul (1787–1840). The couple had four children:

• Eugénie-Marguerite-Marie (1810–1892)
• Henri Armand (1812–1893)
• Louis-Paul-Joseph (1817–1818)
• Alyde (c.1820–1875)

Works

• Coup d'oeil sur la campagne d'Afrique en 1830 et sur les négociations qui l'ont précédée (1831)
• Préface de l'histoire qui se fait (1832)
• Observations d'un indépendant à un constitutionnel (1835)
• Aperçu sur la colonisation d'Alger (1837)

References

• Saint-Allais, Nicolas Viton de (1876). Nobiliaire universel de France, ou Recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de ce royaume, Vol. 16. Paris: Librairie Bachelin-Deflorenne, pp. 257–58.

External links

• Works by Armand Jehannot de Bartillat at Gallica