Jacques Bernard d'Anselme

Jacques Bernard Modeste d'Anselme (22 July 1740, Apt - 17 September 1814, Paris) was a French general, notable as the first commander of the Army of the Var.

Biography

He became a knight of Saint Louis on 18 April 1770. During the American Revolution, he was a lieutenant colonel of the Regiment of Soissons. As lieutenant general, he took Nice and the fortresses of Mont Alban (French: Fort du mont Alban) and Villefranche-sur-Mer in 1792, but was defeated at Sospello and imprisoned until the revolution of Thermidor. His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe.

Sources

• Pierre Larousse, Grand Dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle, 15 volumes, 1863-1890.
• Louis Gabriel Michaud, Biographie universelle ancienne et moderne, 35 vol., 1773-1858.
• Georges Six, Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire, 2 vol. 1934.
•  This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: "Anselme, Jacques Bernard Modeste d'". Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. 1900.