Jean Sarrazin

Jean Sarrazin (15 August 1770 – 11 November 1848) was a French general during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars.

Born at Penne, Sarrazin joined the dragoons at sixteen and was rapidly promoted after 1792.

He became adjutant-general of the Army of Sambre-et-Meuse in Italy in 1794, and was promoted to the rank of brigadier on 23 August 1798.

He was a leader of the French expedition to support the Irish rebels in 1798, and distinguished himself at the Battle of Castlebar.

Condemned in absentia to death by a conseil de guerre,[a] he did not return to France until the Bourbon Restoration.