Rue Hoche

Louis Lazare Hoche was a French general of the Revolution. He volunteered in the French Guards in 1784, became a captain in 1792, and sent a bold memorandum on the military situation to the Committee of Public Safety, which quickly earned him the rank of general (1793). Commander-in-chief of the army of the Moselle, victorious over the Austrians and the Prussians (Geisberg, December 26, 1793), he delivered the besieged Landau. Denounced as a suspect by Pichegru, he was imprisoned until the 9th of Thermidor. He managed to reduce the royalist insurrection in the West and to pacify the Vendée (1796). Minister of War (1797), commander-in-chief of the army of Sambre-et-Meuse, he defeated the Austrians at Neuwied. He died of illness.