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Servais Beaudouin Boulanger, born on 7 January 1755 at Herstal (Belgium), guillotined on the 29 July 1794 in Paris, was a brigadier general of the French Revolution and protected by Robespierre and Hanriot.

Boulanger was a native of the Principality of Liège, but in 1772 he moved to Paris, where he became an apprentice and then a jeweller in the rue Saint-Honoré.

In July 1789 he joined the National Guard, where he served as a soldier, a gunner, and lieutenant, and the captain of the second battalion of the Section of the Halle-aux-Blés, of which he was the second in command of the armed force.

On 10 August 1792, he took part in the downfall of the monarchy. When Antoine-Joseph Santerre was sent to exercise the military command in the Vendée, he was appointed provisional commanding general in the armée revolutionnaire on 17 May. However, his appointment has aroused strong opposition in some sections, dominated by the moderates. Without waiting for the outcome of this consultation, Boulanger gave his resignation on 20 May 1793.

In July, Charles Sépher was appointed commander-in-chief of the army of the Coasts of Cherbourg, which should crush the federalist insurrection in the Eure departement; Boulanger joined his staff with the rank of adjutant-general chief of the brigade. On 22 July 1793, he was promoted to general de brigade.

In October, he was recalled to Paris, where "armée revolutionaire" has been created at the beginning of September; Boulanger must assume command under the orders of general Charles-Philippe Ronsin. Accepting this position with joy, it rivals the severity with Parein: a Boulanger who claimed a guillotine from each detachment, Parein into two requests. However, become a topic of concern for the Committee of public safety, in the course of November, this army is fragmented: Parein leaves for Lyon with two detachments of 4 and 5 November, four companies of gunners for Caen 10, Ronsin to Lyon on the 20th. Boulanger took command of the troops remained in Paris and in the surrounding area.

Returned to Paris on 10 February 1794, Ronsin took command of the army until his arrest, on 14 March. Boulanger succeeded him in this position until the termination of the Paris revolutionary army, on the 27 March. Related to the Hébertistes through his superior Ronsin, Boulanger escaped repression, joining the followers of Maximilien Robespierre. On 2 April 1794, he denounced his friend, Joseph Lebas two "accomplices" of Ronsin, contributing to their arrest. A month after that, he contributed to the dissolution of his company in the section of the Halle-aux-Blés.

Aide-de-camp of François Hanriot with Jean-Baptiste de Lavalette, it is to him that the Committee of Salut public support to stop Theresa Cabarrus, 22 May 1794.

Assisting Hanriot on the 9 Thermidor, he was accused by Billaud-Varenne to have been a "conspirator with Hébert", placed out-of-the-law and guillotined without trial on 11 Thermidor (29 July 1794).