Dumouriez

Charles François du Perrier, otherwise known as Dumouriez, was born at Cambrai at the peak of Louis XV''s reign. A penniless but highborn French gentryman, he engaged while still in his prime in the dreadful Seven Years'' War from which he returned badly wounded. As the new Revolution began to take a hold Dumouriez ingratiated himself into the royal close circle until the king appointed him as his...