Chartrand, Jean Iacent Sebastian

Jean Iacent Sebastian Chartrand (January 22, 1779, Carcassonne - May 22, 1816, Lille ) - French military, brigadier general (1813), one of the military leaders who died during the White Terror . Out of 37 years of his life, he spent 22 years in military service.

Jean Iacent Sebastian Chartrand
fr. Jean Hyacinthe Sébastien Chartrand
Date of Birth
Place of Birth	Carcassonne
Date of death
Place of death	Lille
Affiliation	France
Type of army	guards light infantry.
Years of service	1793 -1815
Rank	Brigadier General
Commanded	Guards light infantry brigade (1815).
Battles / wars	War of the First Coalition , War of the Second Coalition , Iberian Wars , War of the Fifth Coalition , War of the Sixth Coalition , One Hundred Days .
Awards and prizes

He joined the army as a volunteer 14-year-old teenager in 1793. During the years of revolutionary wars, he fought on the Spanish border, in Italy, in Holland and on the Rhine, and was wounded at Biberach. Since 1803 - in the regiment of guards on foot rangers. He participated in the wars of the Empire, was wounded in the leg in the battle with the Austrians at Essling . He fought in Spain, participated in the Russian campaign , in the battles in Saxony in 1813.

Produced in colonels, transferred to the line infantry. The rank of brigadier general received two months after the rank of colonel, for the difference in the battle of Kulm . He was wounded near Dresden and was captured as part of the corps of Marshal Saint-Cyr . After the defeat of Napoleon, he returned with other prisoners to France; he did not receive an appointment from the Bourbons.

During the Hundred Days, he actively supported Napoleon, participated in the suppression of the royalists (supporters of the Bourbons) in the south of the country. In the Belgian campaign, he commanded a brigade of guards light infantry in the formation of General Duem . Participated in the battle of Linyi ; at Waterloo, his regiments showed great tenacity, holding back the Prussian troops of General von Bülow who appeared on the battlefield.

The battle for the village of Planchenoix during the Battle of Waterloo . Fresh battalions of the Old Guard of General Moran and Pele (in high hats with a banner in the center of the picture) support the bloodless regiments of the Young Guard of Chartrand and Guy under the general command of Duem in hand-to-hand combat with the advancing Prussians.

During the second Bourbon Restoration, he was deported to his native Carcassonne. Without permission, he returned to Paris, was arrested and transferred to a military court in Lille, which sentenced him to death for treason against the Bourbons, whom he swore at the first Restoration. The sentence was executed in the moat of the Lille fortress.

General Chartrand was one of the most senior victims of the White Terror - the repressive policies of the Bourbons and their adherents in relation to persons devoted to the emperor Napoleon. The execution of General Chartrand, along with the execution of Marshal Ney and Brigadier General Labeduaire , caused great resonance and indignation in society. Napoleon bequeathed to the children of General Chartrand 150 thousand francs.