A Hero from Saint-Malo: Nicolas Beaugeard
Count of Bellevue A Hero from Saint-Malo: Nicolas Beaugeard An Episode of the French Revolution By The Comte de Bellevue Rennes, France 1904 Translated by Gena R. Chattin (GRC – her footnotes marked with these initials) Edited by Llewellyn M. Toulmin, Ph.D., FRGS, FRSA of Silver Spring, Maryland (LMT) fifth great-grand nephew of Nicolas Beaugeard) FR. SIMON, RENNES 1 2 [PORTRAIT: In existence at the Chateau of Lemo] AN LITTLE-KNOWN HERO FROM SAINT-MALO NICOLAS-JOSEPH BEAUGEARD Secretary of the Orders to Queen Marie-Antoinette and to Madame the Duchess of Angouême, Captain of the Royal Army of Brittany 1755 to 1817 [birth and death dates] 3 Count of Bellvue A Hero from Saint-Malo It was the morning of January 21, 1793. Louis XVI had been condemned to death. Already they were leading toward the guillotine the descendant of nearly forty kings who, for fourteen centuries were succeeded on the French throne and had made that nation so powerful, so glorious, and so prosperous. Would the French indifferently witness that assassination and allow the best of men and the most paternal of kings to be bled white? Several loyal royalists resolved an attempt to prevent this crime and to tear the innocent victim away from his executioners. It was a gentleman, originating from Gascogne and then aged 33 years, the famous baron of Batz, who installed himself at the head of the movement. Along with his secretary, Jean-Louis Michel Devaux, the marquis of La Guiche, called “Sévignon”, Hyde de Neuville, the count of Allonville, and MM.
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