Nicolas-Louis d'Assas

Nicolas-Louis d'Assas (1733–1760), aka Louis d'Assas du Mercou and Chevalier d'Assas, was a captain of the French regiment of Auvergne, whose celebrity depends on a single act of defiance.

He was born in Le Vigan, Gard.

Having entered a wood to reconnoitre it the night before the battle of Kloster Kampen in 1760, he was suddenly surrounded by the enemy English soldiers, and defied with bayonets at his breast to utter a cry of alarm; "Ho, Auvergne!" he exclaimed, and fell dead on the instant, pierced with bayonets, to the saving of his countrymen.

Memory

The Rue d'Assas in the 6th arrondissement of Paris is named after him^[1][2].

References

1. ^ [1]
2. ^ Armorial des rues de Paris

This article incorporates text from the public domain 1907 edition of The Nuttall Encyclopædia.

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Name	Assas, Nicholas
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Date of birth	1733
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Date of death	1760
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