CHASSE (Fr. for " chased ")

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CHASSE (Fr. for " chased ") , a gliding step in dancing, so called since one foot is brought up behind or chases the other. The chasse croise is a

double

variety of the step.
CHASSELOUP-LAUBAT, FRANCOIS, MARQUIS DE (1754-1833), French general and military engineer, was born at St Sernin (Lower

Charente

CHARENTE

) on the 18th of August 1754, of a noble family, and entered the French engineers in 1774. He was still a subaltern at the outbreak of the Revolution, becoming captain in 1791. His ability as a military engineer was recognized in the campaigns of 1792 and 1793. In the following year he won distinction in various actions and was promoted successively chef de bataillon and colonel. He was

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of engineers at the siege of Mainz in 1796, after which he was sent to Italy. He there conducted the first siege of Mantua, and reconnoitred thepositions and lines of advance of the army of Bonaparte. He was promoted general of brigade before the close of the campaign, and was subsequently employed in fortifying the new Rhine frontier of France. His

work

WORK

chief

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

of engineers in the army of Italy (1799) was conspicuously successful, and after the battle of Novi he was made general of division. When

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

took the field in 'Soo to retrieve the disasters of 1799, he again selected Chasseloup as his engineer general. During the peace of 18o1-18o5 he was chiefly employed in reconstructing the defences of northern Italy, and in particular the afterwards famous Quadrilateral. His chef-d'oeuvre was the

great

GREAT

fortress of'Alessandria on the Tanaro. In 18o5 he remained in Italy with Massena, but at the end of 18o6

Napoleon

NAPOLEON

, then engaged in the Polish campaign, called him to the Grande Armee, with which he served in the campaign of 1806-07, directing the sieges of Colberg, Danzig and Stralsund. During the Napoleonic domination in Germany, Chasseloup reconstructed many fortresses, in particular Magdeburg. In the campaign of 1809 he again served in Italy. In 1810 Napoleon made him a councillor of state. His last campaign was that of 1812 in Russia. He retired from active service soon afterwards, though in 18x4 he was occasionally engaged in the inspection and construction of fortifications. Louis XVIII. made him a peer of France and a,knight of St Louis. He refused to join Napoleon in the Hundred Days, but after the second Restoration he voted in the chamber of peers against the condemnation of Marshal Ney. In politics he belonged to the constitutional party. The king created him a marquis. Chasseloup's later years were employed chiefly in putting in order his manuscripts, a task which he had to abandon owing to the failure of his sight. His only published

work

WORK

was Correspondance d'un general francais, &c. sur divers sujets (Paris, 18o1, republished

Milan

MILAN
MILAN (Ital. Milano, Ger. Mailand, anc. Mediolanum, q.v.)

, 18o5 and 1811, under the title Correspondance de deux generals, &c., essais sur quelques parties d'artillerie et de fortification). The most important of his papers are in manuscript in the Depot of Fortifications, Paris.
As an engineer Chasseloup was an adherent, though of advanced views, of the old bastioned system. He followed in many respects the engineer Bousmard, whose work was published in 1797 and who fell, as a Prussian officer, in the defence of Danzig in 1807 against Chasseloup's own attack. His front was applied to Alessandria, as has been stated, and contains many elaborations of the

bastion

BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

trace, with, in particular, masked flanks in the tenaille, which served as extra flanks of the bastions. The

bastion

BASTION (through the Fr. from late Lat. bastire, to build)

itself was carefully and minutely retrenched. The

ordinary

ORDINARY (med. Lat. ordinarius, Fr. ordinaire)

ravelin he replaced by a heavy casemated caponier after the example of Montalembert, and, like Bousmard's, his own ravelin was a large and powerful work pushed out beyond the glacis.

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