Noël Jourda de Vaux

Military Person

1705 – 1788

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Who was Noël Jourda de Vaux?

Noël Jourda de Vaux, 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 and Marie Anne de Saint-Germain.

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Born
Mar 12, 1705
Le Puy-en-Velay
Died
Sep 14, 1788
Grenoble

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on July 23, 2013

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