Donatien Guiscard (1683-1713) was a French general who overthrew Elisabeth I of France in 1709.
Biography[]
Guiscard was from Lyon in the Kingdom of France, and became a general after serving in the War of the Spanish Succession in Europe in the early 1700s. He was stationed in Alsace-Lorraine, and in 1708 he gathered revolutionary forces and rebelled against Queen Elisabeth, whose rule caused a war against the Austrian Empire.
Guiscard raided Dijon and other French towns, and drove the fleet out of Marseille, leading to its destruction by George Rooke's fleet. In 1709, late in winter, he finally attacked and captured Paris, and had the leading French government officials guillotined along with the queen, and France was ruled by the 1709 Republic. Following the fall of the 1709 Republic in 1713, Guiscard was arrested and executed by the returning monarchy.