FRANCESCHI, JEAN BAPTISTE, BARON (1766-1813), French general, was born at Bastia, Corsica, on Dec. 5, 1766, and entered the French service in 1793. He served in Italy from 1795 to 1799, again as a general officer in the campaign of Marengo, in the Naples campaign of 1805–o6, and in the Peninsular War from 1807 to 1809. He commanded a Neapolitan brigade in the Russian war of 1812, and died at Danzig on March 19, 1813.
Two other generals of brigade in Napoleon's wars bore the name of Franceschi, and the three have often been mistaken for each other. JEAN BAPTISTE MARIE FRANCESCHI-DELONNE (1767— 181o), who served throughout the revolutionary campaign on the Rhine, took part in the campaign of Zurich in 1799, and es caped from, and returned to, Genoa, when in 1800 Massena was besieged there. In the Peninsular War he won distinction as a cavalry general. He died, a prisoner of the Spaniards, at Cartha gena on Oct. 23, 1810. FRAM' OIS FRANCESCHI-LOSIO (1770-1810), born at Milan, served through the Italian campaign of 1796-97, and subsequently, like Franceschi-Delonne, with Massena at Zurich and at Genoa, and at the headquarters of King Joseph in Italy and Spain. He was killed in a duel by the Neapolitan colonel Filangieri in 1810.