Jean Baptiste Pierre Constant, Count of Suzannet
Jean Baptiste Pierre Constant, Count Suzannet was a royalist officer who fought in the War in the Vendée.
Suzannet emigrated to Britain in 1792, but he returned to France in 1795 following the landing at Quiberon and was placed under the command of François de Charette.
Charette was captured and executed in 1796, Suzannet succeeded as head of the Army of Lower Poitou during the insurrection of 1799.
In 1815 many people in the Vendée did not accept the change of government that Napoleon Bonaparte's return to Paris from exile on the isle of Elba, and hostilities once again broke out in the region. Suzannet was severely wounded at the Battle of Rocheserviere on June 20, 1815 fighting for King Louis XVIII against troops loyal to Napoleon Bonaparte, as a result of his injuries Suzannet died the next day at Aigrefeuille-sur-Maine.