Louis Joseph Lahure was born on 29 November 1767 in Mons in the Austrian Netherlands.

[1] Occupying Holland in January 1795, the French continental army learned that the Dutch navy had been frozen into the ice near Texel Island.

Lahure and 128 men simply rode up to it and demanded surrender.

[1] He was made a Grand Officier of the Legion of Honour and the Order of Leopold.

They had seven children and resided at the Château de Wavrechain-sous-Faulx in northern France.