Louis Charles Armand Fouquet

French general and diplomat
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IntroFrench general and diplomat
A.K.A.Louis Charles Armand Fouquet de Belle-Isle
A.K.A.Louis Charles Armand Fouquet de Belle-Isle
PlacesFrance
wasDiplomat Military personnel
Work fieldMilitary Politics
Gender
Male
Birth19 September 1693, Agde, canton of Agde, arrondissement of Béziers, Hérault
Death19 July 1747Exilles, Province of Turin, Piedmont, Italy (aged 53 years)
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Biography

Louis Charles Armand Fouquet, known as Chevalier de Belle-Isle (19 September 1693 in Agde – 19 July 1747 at the Battle of Assietta) was a French general and diplomatist. He was the younger brother to Marshal Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, duc de Belle-Isle.

He served as a junior officer in the War of the Spanish Succession and as brigadier in the campaign of 1734 on the Rhine and Moselle, where he won the grade of marchal de camp. He was employed under his brother in political missions in Bavaria and in Swabia in 1741-1742, became a lieutenant-general, fought in Bohemia, Bavaria and the Rhine countries in 1742-1743, and was arrested and sent to England with the marshal in 1744. On his release he was given a command in the Army of Piedmont. He fell a victim to his romantic bravery at the battle of Assietta.

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