Gabriel Nicolas Dauvet

Gabriel Nicolas Dauvet, Marquis de Dauvet-Maineville (16 September 1751 – 17 November 1819), was a French aristocrat and soldier.

Dauvet was born on 16 September 1751 at the Château de Mainneville, a commune in the Eure department in Normandy in northern France.

[1] After the start of the French Revolution, he emigrated away from France for which he was sentenced to death in absentia on 15 July 1793 at the main court of the Seine-Maritime department.

At the first Bourbon Restoration, he returned to his native country and received the rank of Maréchal de camp.

[2] He was made a Chevalier of the Order of Saint Louis and awarded the Decoration of the Lily.