Jean Francois Carteaux (Paperback)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Jean Baptiste Francois Carteaux (January 31, 1751 - April 12, 1813) was a French painter who became a General in the French Revolutionary Army. He is notable chiefly for being the young Napoleon Bonaparte's incompetent commander at the siege of Toulon in 1793.Born in 1751, Carteaux followed the career of a painter, producing several mediocre works including a portrait of King Louis XVI on horseback.Following the French Revolution, he became a General and given a command in the Armee des Alpes, despite the fact he had achieved no military training. Soon after his arrival, Carteaux was given the task of defeating a force of royalist Provencal rebels. On July 16, 1793, he succeeded in defeating the small rebel force.