Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye
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Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye 🇫🇷

Joseph-Geneviève, comte de Puisaye (Known as "Comte de Puisaye")
French Royalist General, Leader of the Chouan Resistance, Upper Canada Colonizer
Born 1755 🇫🇷 Mortagne-au-Perche, France
Passed Away Sep 13, 1827 Blythe House (Hammersmith), United Kingdom
Lifespan 72 years old
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"A chivalric royalist whose wanderings led him from the bocage of Brittany to the Niagara frontier."

Archival Overview

Aristocratic French counter-revolutionary commander who led the royalist Chouan uprising in Brittany and later brought a settlement of French royalist emigrés to Upper Canada in 1798.

Biographical Record

The Comte de Puisaye was a prominent general of the royalist counter-revolution during the French Revolution, commanding the Quiberon expedition of 1795. Following its defeat, he negotiated with British Prime Minister William Pitt to resettle displaced French royalist officers in Canada.

In 1798, Puisaye led forty French emigrés to Upper Canada, establishing the short-lived settlement of Windham near Markham and a military farming estate on the Niagara River at Niagara-on-the-Lake. Though the settlement dispersed, Puisaye's memoirs provided crucial primary accounts of the Chouan wars.

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St Mary's Churchyard
Hammersmith (London), United Kingdom
GPS: 51.4925, -0.2289
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