Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine was a French Army officer. As a young officer in the French Royal Army, he served in the Seven Years' War. In the American Revolutionary War he joined Rochambeau's Expé
Custine as general-in-chief of the Army of the Rhine in 1792 (painted posthumously in 1834)
Custine holds a council of war with his staff to plan the breach of the Wissembourg lines. By the artist Frédéric Regamey.
Custine continued the revolution in the German Rhineland through proclamation and the levy of heavy taxes on the conquered territories.
Prior to his execution, Custine met with the Abbe Lotheringen, for his confession and his prayers. He also wrote a letter to his son.
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Adam Philippe, Comte de Custine
…a majority vote of the Tribunal on 27 August, and guillotined the following day. His son was also executed a few months later, and his daughter-in-law Delphine de Custine suffered for several months in prison before she was released in the summer of 1794. She managed to recover some of the family property and emigrated…
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