Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg
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Marie-Charles-César de Faÿ, comte de la Tour-Maubourg (born February 11, 1757, at Motte-Galaure, Drôme
, - died April 28, 1831 in Paris
), was a French soldier and politician during the French Revolution, and of the First French Empire
. His father was Claude Florimond de Faÿ (1712–1790), and his mother was Vacheron Bermont Marie Françoise (b.1712).
in the Estates General
. Friend of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, he was one of the first nobles to join the Third Estate. He was representative to Nord, and Pas de Calais.
He was charged with Antoine Barnave
, and Jerome Pétion to bring back the royal family to Paris
at the time of the attempted Flight to Varennes
(June 1791). His devotion, on this occasion, will remain misunderstood by Marie-Antoinette. However, in her memoirs Madame Tourzel
, witness of the facts, paid tribute to his dedication to the royal family.
He was Colonel of the 3rd régiment de chasseurs à cheval from 1791 to February 1792. With the separation of National Constituent Assembly
, he accompanied the marquis de Fayette with the Army of the Center in 1792, and emigrated with him after the dismissal by Louis XVI, 10 August 1792. Captured at Rochefort, Belgium
, with Lafayette, and imprisoned by the Austrians, he was released after the treaty of Campo-Formio (18 October 1797) and lived in Hamburg
in exile.
, (under the Directory
), then became a member of the Senate
in 1804, under the First French Empire
. In 1808, he was military governor of Cherbourg, that he helped make a major port. He was excluded from the House of Peers
from the Hundred Days
until 1819.
Concerned with the management of its inheritance, he will take part in the financing of the industrial activities of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
, founder of the famous American dynasty.
, and preserved his position during the Hundred Days. He was Government commissioner for certain departments in the West of France. During the fall of Napoleon, he was excluded from government, until 1819. He was reinstated to the Senate, then made Knight of order of Saint Louis
, and Napoleon had made him commander of the Legion of honor.
César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg married Henriette de Tenella Pinault, heir of a member of the Parliament of Douai. They had many descendants He died in 1831 in Paris.
, was a Cavalry Corps commander, survived the Russian Campaign, and was wounded at the battle of Leipzig
.
Juste-Charles de la Tour-Maubourg married Anastasie de La Fayette, the daughter of Lafayette. They had three daughters. The second, Jenny, married General Ettore Perrone di San Martino
, famous politician of the Kingdom of Piedmont. Among their descendants is the present Queen Paola of Belgium
.
Just Pons Florimond de Fay de la Tour Maubourg(1781–1837), was Auditor with the Conseil d'État under the Empire, was ambassador from France to Dresden, Constantinople and Rome. From March 1809, until 1811, he was Chargé d'Affaires to Constantinople, but was recalled, upon the peace between England, and Turkey. He was made officer of the Legion of honor in 1830. In 1831, at the consistory that elected Pope Gregory XVI
, the marquis had the honour of informing the assembled cardinals that Louis-Philippe
would waive his right of veto, with the assurance that only a wise and virtuous pontiff could be elected by such a wise and virtuous assembly.
Rodolphe (1787–1871), was an officer in the campaigns of the Empire, major general, officer of the Legion of honor.
Armand - Septime (1801–1845), bachelor of law, was Master of the requests to the Council of State. Under the Monarchy of July, he was ambassador in Naples, in Spain then in Rome, where he succeeded his older brother. He was commander of the Legion of honor. A portrait of his wife, painted by Theodore Chassériau
was recently acquired by Metropolitan Museum of New York.
). Officer of cavalry, 3rd Regiment of Chasseurs-à-Cheval, he was administrator of the le Grand Central Railroad, :fr:Compagnie du chemin de fer du Grand Central appointed to Haute-Loire, throughout the Second Empire, honorary chamberlain of Napoleon III and captain of the Imperial Hunt.
He married in 1849, Anne Mortier of Trévise (1824–1900), granddaughter of marshal Mortier duke of Trévise, who was lady of the Table of Empress Eugenie
, and who appeared in the extreme right-hand side of the famous painting of Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Part of the notebooks of the marchioness were published by general Thimble-Brissac in the Review of the Napoleonean Memory , and is available on the site napoléon.org. Their son was killed during the Franco-Prussian War
, at 20 years age, and their daughter died shortly after her marriage, without descendants. They were left the Chateau de Frouard. After the death of her husband, the marchioness de Maubourg withdrew, to her various residences, Maubourg, Paris, Cannes and Glareins (Ain). The last descendants of the Fay family de la Tour-Maubourg are buried in a mausoleum in the commune of Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon
, which was built starting from the plans of the Lyons architect Carra.
Drôme
Drôme , a department in southeastern France, takes its name from the Drôme River.-History:The French National Constituent Assembly set up Drôme as one of the original 83 departments of France on March 4, 1790, during the French Revolution...
, - died April 28, 1831 in Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
), was a French soldier and politician during the French Revolution, and of the First French Empire
First French Empire
The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...
. His father was Claude Florimond de Faÿ (1712–1790), and his mother was Vacheron Bermont Marie Françoise (b.1712).
French revolution
He was appointed to the nobility of Puy-en-VelayLe Puy-en-Velay
Le Puy-en-Velay is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.Its inhabitants are called Ponots.-History:Le Puy-en-Velay was a major bishopric in medieval France, founded early, though its early history is legendary...
in the Estates General
Estates-General of 1789
The Estates-General of 1789 was the first meeting since 1614 of the French Estates-General, a general assembly representing the French estates of the realm: the nobility, the Church, and the common people...
. Friend of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette, he was one of the first nobles to join the Third Estate. He was representative to Nord, and Pas de Calais.
He was charged with Antoine Barnave
Antoine Barnave
Antoine Pierre Joseph Marie Barnave was a French politician, and, together with Honoré Mirabeau, one of the most influential orators of the early part of the French Revolution...
, and Jerome Pétion to bring back the royal family to Paris
Paris
Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
at the time of the attempted Flight to Varennes
Flight to Varennes
The Flight to Varennes was a significant episode in the French Revolution during which King Louis XVI of France, his wife Marie Antoinette, and their immediate family attempted unsuccessfully to escape from Paris in order to initiate a counter-revolution...
(June 1791). His devotion, on this occasion, will remain misunderstood by Marie-Antoinette. However, in her memoirs Madame Tourzel
Louise-Elisabeth, Marquise de Tourzel
Louise Élisabeth de Croÿ, Marquise of Tourzel was a French memoir-writer, noble and courtier...
, witness of the facts, paid tribute to his dedication to the royal family.
He was Colonel of the 3rd régiment de chasseurs à cheval from 1791 to February 1792. With the separation of National Constituent Assembly
National Constituent Assembly
The National Constituent Assembly was formed from the National Assembly on 9 July 1789, during the first stages of the French Revolution. It dissolved on 30 September 1791 and was succeeded by the Legislative Assembly.-Background:...
, he accompanied the marquis de Fayette with the Army of the Center in 1792, and emigrated with him after the dismissal by Louis XVI, 10 August 1792. Captured at Rochefort, Belgium
Rochefort, Belgium
Rochefort is a Walloon municipality located in the Belgian province of Namur close to the Ardennes. On January 1, 2006 Rochefort had a total population of 12,038. The total area is 165.27 km² which gives a population density of 73 inhabitants per km²...
, with Lafayette, and imprisoned by the Austrians, he was released after the treaty of Campo-Formio (18 October 1797) and lived in Hamburg
Hamburg
-History:The first historic name for the city was, according to Claudius Ptolemy's reports, Treva.But the city takes its modern name, Hamburg, from the first permanent building on the site, a castle whose construction was ordered by the Emperor Charlemagne in AD 808...
in exile.
Under the Consulate and the First Empire
He returned to France in 1798 and became a member of Corps législatifCorps législatif
The Corps législatif was a part of the French legislature during the French Revolution and beyond. It is also the generic French term used to refer to any legislative body.-History:The Constitution of the Year I foresaw the need for a corps législatif...
, (under the Directory
French Directory
The Directory was a body of five Directors that held executive power in France following the Convention and preceding the Consulate...
), then became a member of the Senate
Sénat conservateur
The Sénat conservateur was a body set up in France during the Consulate by the Constitution of the Year VIII. With the Tribunat and the Corps législatif, it formed one of the three legislative assemblies of the Consulate...
in 1804, under the First French Empire
First French Empire
The First French Empire , also known as the Greater French Empire or Napoleonic Empire, was the empire of Napoleon I of France...
. In 1808, he was military governor of Cherbourg, that he helped make a major port. He was excluded from the House of Peers
Peerage of France
The Peerage of France was a distinction within the French nobility which appeared in the Middle Ages. It was abolished in 1789 during the French Revolution, but it reappeared in 1814 at the time of the Bourbon Restoration which followed the fall of the First French Empire...
from the Hundred Days
Hundred Days
The Hundred Days, sometimes known as the Hundred Days of Napoleon or Napoleon's Hundred Days for specificity, marked the period between Emperor Napoleon I of France's return from exile on Elba to Paris on 20 March 1815 and the second restoration of King Louis XVIII on 8 July 1815...
until 1819.
Concerned with the management of its inheritance, he will take part in the financing of the industrial activities of Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours
Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours was a French nobleman, writer, economist, and government official, who was the father of Eleuthère Irénée du Pont, the founder of E.I...
, founder of the famous American dynasty.
After the Restoration
In 1814, he was named at the time of the Bourbon RestorationBourbon Restoration
The Bourbon Restoration is the name given to the period following the successive events of the French Revolution , the end of the First Republic , and then the forcible end of the First French Empire under Napoleon – when a coalition of European powers restored by arms the monarchy to the...
, and preserved his position during the Hundred Days. He was Government commissioner for certain departments in the West of France. During the fall of Napoleon, he was excluded from government, until 1819. He was reinstated to the Senate, then made Knight of order of Saint Louis
Order of Saint Louis
The Royal and Military Order of Saint Louis was a military Order of Chivalry founded on 5 April 1693 by Louis XIV and named after Saint Louis . It was intended as a reward for exceptional officers, and is notable as the first decoration that could be granted to non-nobles...
, and Napoleon had made him commander of the Legion of honor.
César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg married Henriette de Tenella Pinault, heir of a member of the Parliament of Douai. They had many descendants He died in 1831 in Paris.
Brothers
His brother, Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-MaubourgMarie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg
Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg was a French cavalry commander starting under the Ancien Régime of France, and rising to prominence during the First French Empire...
, was a Cavalry Corps commander, survived the Russian Campaign, and was wounded at the battle of Leipzig
Battle of Leipzig
The Battle of Leipzig or Battle of the Nations, on 16–19 October 1813, was fought by the coalition armies of Russia, Prussia, Austria and Sweden against the French army of Napoleon. Napoleon's army also contained Polish and Italian troops as well as Germans from the Confederation of the Rhine...
.
Juste-Charles de la Tour-Maubourg married Anastasie de La Fayette, the daughter of Lafayette. They had three daughters. The second, Jenny, married General Ettore Perrone di San Martino
Ettore Perrone di San Martino
Ettore Perrone conte di San Martino was an Italian politician and military leader.-French Military Service:...
, famous politician of the Kingdom of Piedmont. Among their descendants is the present Queen Paola of Belgium
Queen Paola of Belgium
Paola, Queen of the Belgians , is the queen consort of Albert II of Belgium....
.
Children
Marie-Charles, comte de La Tour-Maubourg (b. 11 February 1757 - 28 May 1831) married Charlotte, daughter of Charles Pinault, de Thénelles, (d. 18 June 1837). They had six children:- Just Pons Florimond marquis de La Tour-Maubourg who married Caroline de La Perron de Saint Martino (1788 - 20 June 1855? 1858?) on 11 October 1815;
- Adèle (b. 22 September 1783) who married on 19 September 1801, François de Baigneux de Courcival;
- Rodolphe (b. 8 October 1787 - 27 May 1871), vicomte de La Tour-Maubourg, 1845 pair de France;
- Marie-Stéphanie (30 September 1790 - 21 February 1868), who married in 1810 Antoine comte Andréossy, (6 March 1761 - 10 September 1828);
- Eléonore (d. 9 April 1831);
- Armand-Charles (22 July 1801 - 18 April 1845), vicomte de La Tour-Maubourg, 1841 pair de France, who married Octavie Daru (d. 18 April 1834).
Pope Gregory XVI
Pope Gregory XVI , born Bartolomeo Alberto Cappellari, named Mauro as a member of the religious order of the Camaldolese, was Pope of the Catholic Church from 1831 to 1846...
, the marquis had the honour of informing the assembled cardinals that Louis-Philippe
Louis-Philippe of France
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...
would waive his right of veto, with the assurance that only a wise and virtuous pontiff could be elected by such a wise and virtuous assembly.
Rodolphe (1787–1871), was an officer in the campaigns of the Empire, major general, officer of the Legion of honor.
Armand - Septime (1801–1845), bachelor of law, was Master of the requests to the Council of State. Under the Monarchy of July, he was ambassador in Naples, in Spain then in Rome, where he succeeded his older brother. He was commander of the Legion of honor. A portrait of his wife, painted by Theodore Chassériau
Théodore Chassériau
Théodore Chassériau was a French romantic painter noted for his portraits, historical and religious paintings, allegorical murals, and Orientalist images inspired by his travels to Algeria.-Life and work:...
was recently acquired by Metropolitan Museum of New York.
Grandchildren
For the following generation, we can mention César Florimond de la Tour Maubourg (1820–1886)http://www.assemblee-nationale.fr/sycomore/fiche.asp?num_dept=9210#biographie, son of Just Florimond, and Caroline de La Perron de Saint Martino, (sister of Hector Perrone de San MartinoEttore Perrone di San Martino
Ettore Perrone conte di San Martino was an Italian politician and military leader.-French Military Service:...
). Officer of cavalry, 3rd Regiment of Chasseurs-à-Cheval, he was administrator of the le Grand Central Railroad, :fr:Compagnie du chemin de fer du Grand Central appointed to Haute-Loire, throughout the Second Empire, honorary chamberlain of Napoleon III and captain of the Imperial Hunt.
Eugénie de Montijo
Doña María Eugenia Ignacia Augustina de Palafox-Portocarrero de Guzmán y Kirkpatrick, 16th Countess of Teba and 15th Marquise of Ardales; 5 May 1826 – 11 July 1920), known as Eugénie de Montijo , was the last Empress consort of the French from 1853 to 1871 as the wife of Napoleon III, Emperor of...
, and who appeared in the extreme right-hand side of the famous painting of Franz Xaver Winterhalter. Part of the notebooks of the marchioness were published by general Thimble-Brissac in the Review of the Napoleonean Memory , and is available on the site napoléon.org. Their son was killed during the Franco-Prussian War
Franco-Prussian War
The Franco-Prussian War or Franco-German War, often referred to in France as the 1870 War was a conflict between the Second French Empire and the Kingdom of Prussia. Prussia was aided by the North German Confederation, of which it was a member, and the South German states of Baden, Württemberg and...
, at 20 years age, and their daughter died shortly after her marriage, without descendants. They were left the Chateau de Frouard. After the death of her husband, the marchioness de Maubourg withdrew, to her various residences, Maubourg, Paris, Cannes and Glareins (Ain). The last descendants of the Fay family de la Tour-Maubourg are buried in a mausoleum in the commune of Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon
Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon
Saint-Maurice-de-Lignon is a commune in the Haute-Loire department in south-central France.-References:*...
, which was built starting from the plans of the Lyons architect Carra.
Sources
- Maubourg French article
- F J of Basterot: Memories of young childhood Paris, 1896
- CH Bertholet: Contribution to History of the Fay de la Tour Maubourg; Per Lou Chamis, special issue, 1982.
- Madam de Tourzel: Mémoires, The mercury of France, 1986.
- History and dictionary of French revolutionFrench RevolutionThe French Revolution , sometimes distinguished as the 'Great French Revolution' , was a period of radical social and political upheaval in France and Europe. The absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries collapsed in three years...
(1789 - 1799) of Jean TulardJean TulardJean Tulard is a French academic and historian, specialising in the history of cinema, of the French Consulate and the First French Empire.In April 2010, he became Commander of the Légion d'honneur.-References:...
, Jean-François Beech, Alfred Fierro - R of Nomazy: Maubourg , Edition of the Collieries of the Loire, 1956
- L. Castling: Catalogue Historique of Généraux, Paris, Desaide, 1896
- Biographical dictionary of the General Officers High-Loire
- It was once Maubourg, Association of the Friends of the Field of Maubourg, 2006
- Legion d' Honor: Legionaries of Haute-Loire.
- New Générale Biography; Volume 29, Didot, 1859.
- Chapelle Rablais Genealogy
- Le Chateau des Moyeux, history
- Dynastie de Fay, Genealogy
- Fiches individuelles, nesmefamily
- http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/portrait.asp?search=ss&sText=de+la+tour+maubourg&LinkID=mp66082&rNo=0&role=sit NPG D15589, Marie Charles César de Fay, comte de Latour Maubourg, National Portrait Gallery
- Comtesse de La Tour-Maubourg (née Marie-Louise-Charlotte-Gabrielle Thomas de Pange, 1816–1850), (second wife of Armand-Charles-Septime de Fay, comte de La Tour-Maubourg), The Metropolitan Museum
- Portrait de l'Impératrice Eugénie entourée de ses dames d'honneur, Lieu de conservation, Compiègne; musée national du château de Compiègne