Charles Honoré Berthelot La Villeheurnois
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Charles Honoré Berthelot La Villeheurnois (c. 1750, Toulon
- 10 July 1799, Sinnamary
, Guyana
) was a French politician.
He was maître des requêtes
to Louis XVI and with Charles Brottier and Thomas Laurent Madeleine Duverne de Presle
was one of the heads of the plot called the "camp de Grenelle". Thinking they could count on generals Malo and Jean-Pierre Ramel
, who had crushed the Conspiracy of Equals, they envisaged taking the troops under their orders (stationed at Grenelle camp), leading them against the Directors
and re-establishing the monarchy. In fact the two generals warned the Directory of the conspirators' approaches and all three conspirators were arrested before they could do anything. Condemned to only a year in prison, Charles Honoré de La Villeheurnois was deported after the coup d'état
of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797), and died in Guyana.
Toulon
Toulon is a town in southern France and a large military harbor on the Mediterranean coast, with a major French naval base. Located in the Provence-Alpes-Côte-d'Azur region, Toulon is the capital of the Var department in the former province of Provence....
- 10 July 1799, Sinnamary
Sinnamary
Sinnamary is a town and commune on the coast of French Guiana, between Kourou and Iracoubo. Sinnamary was the second French settlement to be founded in French Guiana: the town was founded in 1664....
, Guyana
Guyana
Guyana , officially the Co-operative Republic of Guyana, previously the colony of British Guiana, is a sovereign state on the northern coast of South America that is culturally part of the Anglophone Caribbean. Guyana was a former colony of the Dutch and of the British...
) was a French politician.
He was maître des requêtes
Maître des requêtes
Masters of Requests are high-level judicial officers of administrative law in France and other European countries that have existed in one form or another since the Middle Ages.-Old Regime France:...
to Louis XVI and with Charles Brottier and Thomas Laurent Madeleine Duverne de Presle
Thomas Laurent Madeleine Duverne de Presle
Thomas Laurent Madeleine Duverne du Presle was a French sailor.-Life:He was a student at the École militaire de La Flèche in 1777, then served in the French Navy, coming to sympathise with revolutionary ideas during his service in the American Revolutionary War...
was one of the heads of the plot called the "camp de Grenelle". Thinking they could count on generals Malo and Jean-Pierre Ramel
Jean-Pierre Ramel
Jean-Pierre Ramel was a French general during the French Revolutionary Wars and the First French Empire. Following the defeat of Napoleon I, he was assassinated by royalists in Toulouse during the Second White Terror...
, who had crushed the Conspiracy of Equals, they envisaged taking the troops under their orders (stationed at Grenelle camp), leading them against the Directors
French Directory
The Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate...
and re-establishing the monarchy. In fact the two generals warned the Directory of the conspirators' approaches and all three conspirators were arrested before they could do anything. Condemned to only a year in prison, Charles Honoré de La Villeheurnois was deported after the coup d'état
Coup d'état
A coup d'état state, literally: strike/blow of state)—also known as a coup, putsch, and overthrow—is the sudden, extrajudicial deposition of a government, usually by a small group of the existing state establishment—typically the military—to replace the deposed government with another body; either...
of 18 Fructidor (4 September 1797), and died in Guyana.