François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers

François Séverin Marceau-Desgraviers (March 1, 1769 - September 21, 1796), French general, was born at Chartres. His father served as a legal officer, and Marceau received an education for a legal career, but at the age of sixteen he enlisted in the regiment of Savoy-Carignan. Whilst on furlough in Paris Marceau joined in the storming of the Bastille (14 July 1789); after that event he took his discharge from the regular army and returned to Chartres, but the embarrassments of his family soon compelled him to seek fresh military employment. He became drill instructor, and afterwards captain in the departmental (Eure-et-Loir) regiment of the National Guard.

References

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• Maze, Le Général Marceau (1889)
• Parfait, Le Général Marceau (1892)
• T. C. Johnson, Marceau (London, 1896).