serviceyears branch death_place death_date birth_place allegiance birth_date rank article_title name
kingdom 1801 of france 1783 -- 1789 france 1792 -- cavalry , infantry orléans , loiret , france 23 september 1808 29 january 1764 saarlouis , kingdom of france , now germany kingdom of france kingdom of france france france 29 january 1764 general of division françois muller
 françois muller
françois muller

françois muller -lrb- 29 january 1764 -- 23 september 1808 -rrb- became a division commander during the french revolutionary wars .
he enlisted in the french royal army as a cavalry trooper in 1783 and served until 1789 .
he joined a paris volunteer battalion in 1792 and became an officer .
sent to fight in the war in the vendée , he was promoted general of brigade and general of division within the span of nine days .
his division ran away at both cholet and le mans and he was reportedly drunk at the battle of dol , yet he was transferred in march 1794 to the `` army of the north '' .
in may and june he led a combat division at the battles of grandreng , erquelinnes , gosselies , lambusart and fleurus .
removed from command in august 1794 , he thereafter was assigned to posts in the interior before retiring in 1801 .
entangled in the 1804 affair of jean victor marie moreau he was placed under house arrest at orléans and died there in 1808 .
