Juste-Charles de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg
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Juste-Charles de Faÿ de la Tour-Maubourg (1774 - 1824) married Anastasie de La Fayette (1777-1863), the daughter of marquis de Lafayette, and Adrienne de La Fayette
Adrienne de La Fayette
Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, marquise de La Fayette , the daughter of Jean de Noailles, and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, married Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette....

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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....

. His father was Claude Florimond de Faÿ (1712 - 1790), and his mother was Marie Françoise de Vachon de Belmont (b.1712).

Revolution

He was captured at Rochefort, Belgium
Rochefort, Belgium
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, with his brothers, and Lafayette, and imprisoned by the Austrians, but was soon released. He lived in exile until the release of his brother. After the Lafayettes release from Olmutz, he married Anastasie de la Fayette (1777-1863), at Madame de Tessé
Madame de Tessé
Adrienne Catherine, comtesse de Noailles de Tessé , daughter of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, sister of the Jean-Louis-Paul-François, 5th duc de Noailles, aunt of Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, held a salon, and corresponded with Thomas Jefferson, in the early 19th century.-Life:On 20 June...

's Witmold, on 9 May 1798.

Restoration

He rebuilt the family castle, le Château des Mayeux, destroyed under the Revolution by a fire.

He became mayor of La Chapelle-Rablais
La Chapelle-Rablais
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 in 1830, and owned le Château des Mayeux until 1846.

Brothers

His brother, Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg
Marie 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...

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His older brother, Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg
Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg
Marie-Charles-César de Faÿ, comte de la Tour-Maubourg , was a French soldier and politician during the French Revolution, and of the First French Empire...

 (b. 11 February 1757 - 28 May 1831) was also 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...

, and imprisoned with Lafayette in Olmutz prison until September 1797. He 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;
  • 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).

Children

He married Anastasie de la Fayette (1777-1863), on 9 May 1798. She followed her mother Adrienne de La Fayette
Adrienne de La Fayette
Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, marquise de La Fayette , the daughter of Jean de Noailles, and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, married Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette....

 to Olmutz prison; she copied her letters from prison. After 1848 she lived in Turin with her daughter.

Their daughters, Celestine married Baron de Brigode, and Jenny married Comte Hector Perrone di San-Martino (12 January 1789 - 29 Mar 1849), on 2 Feb 1833. His father was Carlo Giuseppe Perrone di San Martino, and his mother was Paola d'Argentero-Bersezio. Henry Clay
Henry Clay
Henry Clay, Sr. , was a lawyer, politician and skilled orator who represented Kentucky separately in both the Senate and in the House of Representatives...

 attend the wedding.

Comte Hector Perrone di San-Martino graduated from Saint-Cyr
École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr
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 in 1806, was wounded at the battle of Wagram
Battle of Wagram
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, and three times at the Battle of Montmirail
Battle of Montmirail
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. He was killed at the Battle of Novara
Battle of Novara (1849)
The Battle of Novara or Battle of Bicocca was one of the battles fought between the Austrian Empire and the Kingdom of Sardinia during the First Italian War of Independence, within the era of Italian unification...

 in the Piedmont, Italy, on 22 March 1849.

One of the Comte's descendants is Queen Paola of Belgium
Queen Paola of Belgium
Paola, Queen of the Belgians , is the queen consort of Albert II of Belgium....

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