Alexandre Gonsse de Rougeville

Alexandre Dominique Joseph Gonsse de Rougeville , known as marquis de Rougeville (1761-1814) is a character of the French revolution.

Biography

Born with Arras on September 17th, 1761, died with Rheims on March 10th, 1814, he is the son of a rich person farmer general of the Artois, in charge of the collection of the taxes on the brandies and the grains. He passes his childhood to the castle of Saint-Laurent-Blangy, which his/her father makes build about 1775. In spite of their name, they are not noble. His/her brother serves as from 1775 in the gendarmes of the royal guard.

He takes part at the end of the War of independence of the United States, while engaging in the legion of Soubise. According to its dires, it would have returned from there with a revenue of the Congress and the rank of lieutenant-colonel of cavalry.

Fact Knight of Saint-Louis, it is known as the author of the famous Complot of the Eyelet which was to make escape from the Conciergerie the queen Marie-Antoinette. It succeeds in passing a message to the queen, but its project is discovered. This business has as a consequence the hardening of the detention conditions of the queen and was one of the essential loads of its lawsuit.

The Baudrais police officer is sent to the continuation of Rougeville, with unlimited credit. But Rougeville hides in the gypsum quarries of Montmartre, then flees for Brussels (October 1793). It there is denounced as spy of the Revolution and is imprisoned in Treuzenberg. After a refusal of prince de Cobourg to make it release, he imitates the signature of this one and is sent a mail, enabling him to leave prison. After the arrival of the armed with the Revolution in Belgium, it regains Paris in July 1794. It there is stopped like immigrant on denunciation of a debtor of his father fearing to have to pay his debts and is écroué with the Prison of the Nettles, located close to the Carousel, then with the Conciergerie. A speech of the Couchery deputy to the Five hundred obtains freedom to him and it is withdrawn on its grounds, in Artois.

But, continuing its plots and caught up with by a woman near whom it was involved in debt and with which it promised the marriage, it must again flee the police force (1796). Having a sure refuge, he pleads by mail his cause with the minister, and ends up obtaining a grace, while moving in Paris. He is assigned with residence in Rheims, where he lives a house in the old street Old woman-Seam (26, rue de Talleyrand), and the Château of Baslieux close to Rheims. He marries with Soissons, in 1806, Caroline Angélique Boquet de Liancourt (1784-1844) of which he has two wire.

Faithful to its opinions monarchists, it helps the allied Armées against Napoleon. Stopped in its property of Baslieux, he is considered and carried out the very same day. Shot on the Field-of-March against the wall of the Cemetery of North, its body was deposited in the Chapelle Holy-Cross to be buried the following day. His/her sister, Madam Cardoon of Flezard, would have made it exhume common grave to transport it in the church of Marles, village whose his/her father was lord.

Its life was fictionalized by Alexandre Dumas, under the title Chevalier of House-Red , from which one drew the first televised historical serial, with Dominique Paturel and Michel Royer.

Successive residences

1792 : Paris - Hotel of Tileries, 75, rue Saint-Honoré

1793: Hotel, street of the Four-Wire

1797: Castle of the St. Lawrence

1804: Rheims (assigned with residence)

1806: Baslieux, commune of Saint-Thierry

1806: Soissons

1808 : Paris - 6, rue du Faubourg-Poissonnière

1812: Soissons - district Saint-Leger

1814: Rheims - Street Old woman-Seam

See too

This article took again parts of the work of Lenotre, city lower

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