Jean-Baptiste Cyrus de Timbrune de Thiembronne, Comte de Valence (; 22 September 1757 – 4 February 1822) commanded French troops during the

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and the

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. A nobleman, he joined the

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as a

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of cavalry in 1778. By the time of the French Revolution he commanded a cavalry regiment. Valence led troops at Valmy in 1792 and was soon appointed to command the Army of the Ardennes. He led the right wing at

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. Becoming involved in Charles Francois Dumouriez's failed plot to seize control of the army, he defected in April 1793. Valence returned to France during an amnesty and was elected to the

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in 1805. Emperor

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named him to lead an infantry division in the

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where he led Polish troops at

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and Almonacid in 1809. He commanded a heavy cavalry division during the

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leading his horsemen at

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and

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. He served with Paul Grenier and

Horace Sébastiani Quintus Horatius Flaccus (; 8 December 65 BC – 27 November 8 BC),Suetonius, Life of Horace commonly known in the English-speaking world as Horace (), was the leading Roman lyric poet during the time of Augustus (also known as Octavian). The ...

in the

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. After the Bourbon Restoration he entered the Chamber of Peers in 1819 and died in 1822. VALENCE is one of the

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, on Column 4.

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