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Lazare Hoche — Republican general, pacifier of the Vendée, 1768–1797
A Versailles stable-hand’s son who became a general at twenty-five, he pacified the Vendée by firmness and clemency mixed; his sudden death at twenty-nine robbed the Republic of its purest soldier. (Editorial synthesis)
Lazare Hoche was born on 24 June 1768. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Lazare Hoche was born in Versailles. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Lazare Hoche died on 19 September 1797. (source: Archives nationales)
Lazare Hoche died in Wetzlar. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
According to consensus, Lazare Hoche died of a respiratory illness, most likely pneumonia. A contested minority hypothesis suggests poisoning. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Encyclopædia Universalis)
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