Adrien, Count de Rougé
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Adrien Gabriel Victurnien, Count de Rougé, (2 Jully 1782 Everly
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 – 16 June 1838 Guyencourt
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) was a French statesman, distinguished soldier, and Peer of France.

Adrien was a son of Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé
Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé
Bonabes Jean Catherine Alexis, Marquis de Rougé was a French colonel, third Marquis de Rougé, died while returning to France from the American War of Independence, on board of the French ship of the line "Le Zele"....

 and his wife Natalie Victurnienne
Natalie Victurnienne, Marquise de Rougé
Victurnienne Delphine Nathalie de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marquise de Rougé , was the daughter of the Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart.-Life:...

. He served under the Comte d'Artois, later King Charles X
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, in the Army of the Princes, first as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, then in 1800 as a "" in the Mortemart regiment. He served then as an officer of the King's Mousquetaires in 1814.

From 1815 to 1823, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the of the Somme
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. In 1816, Charles X appointed him to the Peerage with the title of Comte. For a time he commanded one of the four subdivisions of the army stationed in Paris
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. He became the leader of the Knights of the Faith, a very powerful secret ultra conservative organisation. Like his older brother, Alexis Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé
Alexis Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé
Bonabes Louis Victurnien, Marquess of Rougé, baron de Coëtmen and de Montfaucon Peer of France, was a French military officer and statesman....

 (head of the entire House of Rougé
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, Rougé du Plessis-Bellière et de Fay), he refused his allegiance to the government of King Louis Philippe
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Louis Philippe I was King of the French from 1830 to 1848 in what was known as the July Monarchy. His father was a duke who supported the French Revolution but was nevertheless guillotined. Louis Philippe fled France as a young man and spent 21 years in exile, including considerable time in the...

.

Family

By his wife, Caroline de Forbin d'Oppède, on 18 September 1809, in Arnouville, they had four children:
  • Félix, Comte de Rougé 1810-1893
  • Armel, Comte de Rougé 1813-1898
  • Marie de Rougé 1816-1860
  • Delphine de Rougé 1820-1852.
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