Albert-Eugene of Forest Divonne
Albert-Eugene of Forest Divonne (1651 - October 22nd, 1714) is count de Divonne, page of the duke Charles Emmanuel II, lieutenant in royal Piedmont, in 1668. By act of June 30th, 1680, his/her father bequeathed the goods to him which it had in France, with the Pays of Gex. The goods of Savoy were intended for François Emmanuel, his half-brother. Albert-Eugene definitively left the army and the states of the duke Victor Amédée II, to be established in France, to the Château of Divonne, enters, Gex and Geneva, and entered to the service of the king Louis XIV. He is the author of the French branch of the house of Forest and the first to bear the name of Forest Divonne.
In its new fatherland it carried the title of count, hereditary in his family, but irregular to France, where the foreign titles were not allowed that by courtesy. It is in 1749, in favor of his/her son Gilbert II, that the baronnie of Divonne was set up in county, by the king Louis XV, which conceded the title with perpetuity with the holder and all its male descendants. Albert-Eugene of Forest Divonne was useful in the royal army during 26 years, it was, in 1698, owner of a company of cavalry of his name, which it sold, in 1703, with the count de Gramont.
Widower, in 1685, of Francoise de Soubeyran, girl of the marquis de Montgiraud, and Anne Louise de Ginestous, it had married in second weddings, in 1687, Louise Charlotte de Moyria, girl of the count de Moyria, brigadier of the armies of the king, colonel of a regiment of cavalry of his name, widower without posterity of Louise Balthazarde Milliet d' Arvillars, and had remarié in Christine of the Rainwash. The count de Divonne died on October 22nd, 1714, and was buried in the chorus of the church of Saint-Etienne of Divonne.