Marbot
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Quercy
Quercy is a former province of France located in the country's southwest, bounded on the north by Limousin, on the west by Périgord and Agenais, on the south by Gascony and Languedoc, and on the east by Rouergue and Auvergne....
, near what is now the department of Corrèze
Corrèze
Corrèze is a department in south central France, named after the Corrèze River.The inhabitants of the department are called Corréziens or Corréziennes according to gender.-History:...
in south-western France
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
. It is of noble origin, although its members do not precede their names with any title.
History
The Marbot family became influential at the beginning of the 17th century, becoming allied to and joining in the society of several of the more important families of the Quercy province. Its members engaged in activities related to commerce and law, which brought them considerable wealth, allowing them to acquire property and live from the income of their estates.As from the 18th century, many members of the Marbot family began to play an active role in the military, giving France numerous generals and naval officers. Others became closely linked to the colonial expansion of France, where they held various administrative positions until the gradual decline of the French empire, towards the beginning of the 20th century.
Members
Marbot is the family nameFamily name
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of the following persons:
- Alfred de Marbot (1812-1865), French painter
- Antoine Adolphe Marcelin Marbot (1781-1844), French general
- Charles Rémy Paul Marbot (1847- 1912), Commissioner in the French navy
- François Achille Marbot (1817-1866), Chief administrator in the French navy, interim governor of RéunionRéunionRéunion is a French island with a population of about 800,000 located in the Indian Ocean, east of Madagascar, about south west of Mauritius, the nearest island.Administratively, Réunion is one of the overseas departments of France...
- Jean Antoine MarbotJean Antoine MarbotGeneral Jean-Antoine Marbot was a French general and politician.Marbot was a member of the Garde du Corps but resigned upon the outbreak of the French Revolution. In 1791 he was elected a deputy to the Legislative Assembly. He took part in the French Revolutionary Wars in the Cerdagne against Spain...
(1754-1800), French general and politician - Jean Baptiste Antoine Marcellin de Marbot (1782-1854), French general
- Louis Marie Joseph Marbot (1878-1931), French engineer, developer of the Syrian railway network
- Pierre Jean Marbot (1783-1840), French navy officer