Jean Victor Tharreau
French general
Died when: 45 years 255 days (548 months)Star Sign: Capricorn
Jean Victor Tharreau or Jean Victor Thareau (15 January 1767 – 26 September 1812), was a General of Division in the Army of the French Empire.
Tharreau enthusiastically adopted the revolutionary cause and joined the Maine-et-Loire volunteers in 1792.He quickly rose through the command ranks.By 1795, he was chief of staff of the Army of the Ardennes.
He helped to defend Zurich in the French army's defeat at the First Battle of Zurich in 1799, and participated in the French victory over the combined Austrian and Russian forces later that summer.
After the successes of the 1809 campaign on the Danube, he was part of the jubilant force entering the Habsburg capital of Vienna.
In the 1812 campaign in Russia, he assumed command of the Westphalian army, appointed by Napoleon's brother Jérôme Bonaparte He died as the French Army took Moscow on 26 September 1812, of wounds suffered at the Battle of Borodino.
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