Jean-Baptiste Annibal Aubert du Bayet

[1][2] Aubert du Bayet arrived in France at the beginning of the Revolution, but was initially hostile to revolutionary ideas.

While in Metz, as a young Captain, he published an anti-Jewish pamphlet entitled Le cri du citoyen contre les Juifs.

In 1793, he served as General of Brigade in the heroic defense of Mayence in 1793, when he finally had to surrender to the Prussian Army.

[4] In 1796, General Aubert du Bayet was appointed as ambassador ("Minister of the Republic") to the Ottoman Empire.

[4] His widow returned to France and married to his long-time assistant Jean-François Carra de Saint-Cyr.