Jean-François Joseph Blot

Jean-François Joseph Blot (1781–1857) was a French soldier and politician.

Biography

Blot was born in Étreux on 22 April 1781. He joined the French army. He was promoted to lieutenant and given command of a squadron of cavalry at the Battle of Austerlitz. He ended his career in the army as a general.^[1] He was colonel of the 4th Hussars during the Waterloo Campaign.^{[citation needed]} With his brother, Louis-Joseph (died 1830) he founded a woollen mill in Deux-Sèvres. He was a member (representative) in the Constituent Assembly of 1848. He died in Niort on 25 December 1857.^[1]^[2]

Notes

^ ^a ^b data.bnf.fr.
^ Assemblée nationale.

References

Jean-François, Joseph Blot (1781-1857) (in French), Assemblée nationale, retrieved 9 May 2015
"Jean-François-Joseph Blot (1781-1857) - Auteur - Ressources de la Bibliothèque nationale de France", data.bnf.fr (in French), retrieved 9 May 2015