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Noël Jourda de Vaux

Marshal of France

Died when: 83 years 186 days (1002 months)
Star Sign: Pisces

 

Noël Jourda de Vaux

Noël Jourda de Vaux (12 March 1705 in Château des Vaux au Puy-en-Velay – 14 September 1788 in Grenoble), comte de Vaux, seigneur d'Artiac was a French nobleman and General.

He oversaw the conquest of the Corsican Republic in 1769.He was given command of land forces in the planned Franco-Spanish Invasion of Britain in 1779, but this was abandoned.

He became a Marshal of France in 1783.He was the son of Jean Baptiste Jourda de Vaux, seigneur de Retournac (born 1687) and Marie Anne de Saint-Germain.


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