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Jacques Cazotte

Died in 1792

Jacques Cazotte was born in Dijon in October 1719 and studied at the city's Jesuit college. Having entered the Navy administration in 1740, he was sent to the Antilles as a comptroller and stayed in Martinique, before returning to France, ill. The Jesuits then refused to honour a bill of exchange he had received for his property on the islands. Settled on an estate near Épernay, a resolute royalist, he was arrested in 1792 after the seizure of his counter-revolutionary correspondence and guillotined on 25 September 1792.

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