Simon Canuel - Wikipedia

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Simon Canuel (29 October 1767, Les Trois Moutiers, in the Vienne – 11 May 1840) was a French general.

Life

French Revolutionary Wars

First Empire

Napoleon I decided not to put Canuel on active service, keeping him in command of various quiet strongholds. Bored at the inaction, he went over to the Bourbons in 1814 and so during the Hundred Days the following year had to take refuge among the Royalist insurgents of the Vendée.

Restoration

End of career

References

Sources

Marie-Nicolas Bouillet and Alexis Chassang (ed.s), "Simon Canuel" in Dictionnaire universel d’histoire et de géographie, 1878
"Simon Canuel", in Charles Mullié, Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852