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| death_date = {{Death date and age|df=yes|1825|3|30|1755|7|27}}
| death_place = [[Brétigny-sur-Orge]]
| allegiance ={{Flag|Kingdom of France}}<br/>{{Flag|Kingdom of the French}}<br/>{{Flag|First French Republic}}<br/>{{Flag|First French Empire}}<br>{{flagdeco|France|1814}}
| rank = [[général de division]]
| battles =[[French Revolutionary Wars]]
| laterwork =Diplomat
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'''Gabriel-Marie-Théodore-Joseph, comte d'Hédouville''' (27 July 1755 in [[Laon]],
==Life==
===Early life===
A student at the royal collège at [[La Flèche]], he became a lieutenant in 1788 and rose to adjutant-general and lieutenant-colonel in 1792. He fought at the [[Battle of Valmy]] on 20 September 1792 and was made [[general de brigade]] and [[chief of staff]] to the ''[[Army of Moselle]]'' the following March. He then distinguished himself at the [[Battle of Kaiserslautern]]. However, he was then suspended and imprisoned as a noble and thus as a suspect, but was freed on [[9 Thermidor]] year II (27 July 1794), brought back into the army at the rank of general of brigade and sent to the ''[[Army of the Coasts of Cherbourg]]'' (then at
He temporarily commanded the ''[[Army of the Coasts of the Ocean (1796)|Army of the Coasts of the Ocean]]'' in place of Hoche from 10 July to mid-August 1796.{{sfn|Clerget|1905|p=56}}
===Saint-Domingue===
He served on
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===Consulate to Restoration===
After his time on Saint-Domingue, Hédouville was employed by the ''[[Armée d'Angleterre]]'' before returning to western France in January 1800 to take over from Hoche as commander-in-chief of the ''[[Army of the West (1793)|Army of the West]]'' He again negotiated a peace settlement with the Royalists. He was appointed as the
==Notes==
==References==
*{{cite book|last=Clerget |first=Charles |title=Tableaux des Armées Françaises pendant les Guerres de la Révolution |year=1905 |location=Paris |publisher=Librarie Militaire R. Chapelot et Cie |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dwAbAAAAYAAJ& |accessdate=3 July 2015 |ref=harv
==External links==
*[http://www.towson.edu/~richard/chap11.html Hédouville Flees]
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