Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt
French soldier and marshal of France
About Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt
Lived 1680 – 1770 (aged 90). Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt was a French military officer.
Claude-Guillaume Testu, Marquis of Balincourt (18 March 1680 – 12 May 1770) was a French military officer and a marshal of France.
Biography Testu was the son of Henri Testu de Balincourt and Claude-Marguerite de Sève, daughter of Alexandre de Sève. During the War of the Spanish Succession, he fought in the Assault on Nijmegen in 1702. Testu was promoted to Colonel in the Artois-Infantry Regiment on 9 May 1703. He was made a knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit by Louis XV's orders on 7 June 1767.
At the age of 90, he died of starvation owing to an ossified throat.
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French soldier and marshal of France (1680 – 1770)
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Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt was born on 18 March 1680 in Paris.
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Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt died on 12 May 1770 in Paris.
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Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt was a military officer.
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Claude Guillaume Testu de Balincourt was French.
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