Chanteclair, Claude-Narcisse de Vouges de (b. 1748)

French artillery officer.

Garde de la marine (1758-61). Joined artillery (1762). Lieutenant of the Strasbourg regiment (1767). Captain of the Metz regiment (1778).

Served with distinction at Yorktown and Saint-Christophe. Wounded and taken prisoner (1782). Chevalier de Saint-Louis (1783). Lieutenant colonel (1792). Sous- directeur of artillery in the Ile de France (1795); director of artillery at Martinique (1797), Brest (1801), and la Fère (1802). Retired (1813).

Son of Antoine-François and Louise- Elisabeth (de Brecheret) de Vouges de Chanteclair.