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Jean-Pierre Lacombe-Saint-Michel
French general (1751–1812) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jean-Pierre Lacombe-Saint-Michel, born 5 March 1751 and died 27 January 1812 in the château de Saint-Michel-de-Vax (Tarn),[1] was a French general in the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic armies.
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He appeared as a character in Les Géorgiques by the novelist Claude Simon, his direct descendant.[2] During the French Revolution he protected Bernard-François Balssa (1746-1829), father of Honoré de Balzac; Balssa’s younger brother Jean had married his first cousin Marie-Brigitte Lacombe de Blanchefort in 1777.[3]