He is a descendant of the royalist military leader François de Charette.
Suzannet emigrated to Britain in 1792, but he returned to France in 1795 following the landing at Quiberon and was placed under the command of François de Charette.
François Mitterrand | François Truffaut | Claude François | François Villon | François Rabelais | François Hollande | Jean-François Lyotard | Jean-François Millet | François-René de Chateaubriand | François Boucher | François Fénelon | François Tombalbaye | François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) | Charles François Dumouriez | François Mauriac | Jean-François de Galaup, comte de Lapérouse | Jean-François Champollion | François Viète | François Ozon | François Bozizé | Pierre Charette | Louis-François Richer Laflèche | Joseph François Dupleix | Jean-François Marmontel | François-René de La Tour du Pin, Chambly de La Charce | François Denhaut | François-André Danican Philidor | Michel François | Marie François Sadi Carnot | Louis-François Roubiliac |
His father, a knight of the Order of Saint Louis, served during the revolution as a volunteer under the French princes in Germany; his mother, the Countess Victoire Aimée Libault Gouïn Dufief, was personally engaged in the many battles fought by her relative, General François de Charette, against the revolutionists, for which she was afterwards known as "the heroine of La Vendée".