Armand François d\' Allonville

Armand François d' Allonville , from Oysonville, was born the December 16th 1764 with the castle of the Rock with Verdelot, in the Brie and died in 1832 with Metz.

Count d' Allonville, Brigadier, historian, member of the 1 class of the historical Institute .

Its family

Armand François d' Allonville is one of wire of the count Armand Jean d' Allonville, of Oysonville, known as the gash (July 13rd 1732, with Dommartin-the-Saint-Father, in Champagne January -24 1811, with London), marshal of the Camps and the armies of the King, ordering in emigration the gentlemen of the Champagne province, then of Brittany. His/her mother, Marie-Francoise Jehannot de Bartillat (August 8th, 1744 -?), is the girl of the marquis Louis Joachim Jehannot de Bartillat, colonel of a regiment of his name and Jeanne Pouyvet de Lablinière.

Armand François d' Allonville is the nephew of Antoine Charles Augustin d' Allonville and the brother of Alexandre Louis d' Allonville (1774-1852), prefect, Conseiller of State.

Charles d' Allonville (1400 - 1479) | | (5 generations] | | |-->François III of Allonville (1694 - 1783) | |--> Edmé II of Allonville d' Oysonville (1694 - 1783) X Antoinette Sauvage of Chatelier (1713 - 1793) | |--> Armand Jean d' Allonville (1732 - 1811) | X Marie Francoise Jehannot de Bartillat (1744 - 1817) | | | |--> Armand François d' Allonville (1764 - 1832) | | X (1) Charlotte Vavasseur (1769 - 1799) | | | | | |--> Marie-Louise d' Allonville] (1794 - 1877) | | X Alexandre Louis d' Allonville (1774 - 1852) | | | | X (2) Celestial Octavie of Munich (1785 - 1851) | | | |--> Alexandre Louis d' Allonville (1774 - 1852) | | | |--> Antoine Jean Baptist of Allonville (1765 - 1811) | | X Celestial Octavie of the Bourdonnaie-Lira (1790 - 1851) | | | | | |--> Armand-Octave-Marie d' Allonville (1809 - 1867) | | | |--> Louis d' Allonville (1771 - 1814) | |--> Antoine Charles Augustin d' Allonville (1735 - 1792) | |--> Jean Nicolas d' Allonville (1735 - 1792)

Biography

Before the French revolution

It is his/her uncle, Antoine Charles Augustin d' Allonville, Sous-gouverneur of the first Dauphin, which raises it.

Armand François d' Allonville is named in 1778, second second lieutenant with the Régiment of the King infantry, then in 1785, lieutenant.

Major as a second of the Regiment of Resident of Auxerre, in 1788, it is submitted to the Court on January 21st, 1788, with the Viscount Antoine Jean-Baptiste d' Allonville, his puîné brother. He goes up in fit with body of the king Louis XVI of France, on January 2nd, 1788. At that time he lives in the middle of the family members royal: Louis XVI, Mrs Elisabeth. He is a close relation of Madam de Marsan, dukes of Vauguyon, Choiseul, Turgot, Malesherbes….

Before the revolution, it is made knight of the knight of Malta and colonel of infantry.

Armand François d' Allonville makes publish in 1788, in Nancy, a booklet, Of the French constitution and the means of hardening it . It announces important disorders there giving birth to a crowd of crimes which an absolute capacity would put an end to.

Carried with the delegation by the Bailliage of Castle-Thierry, it cannot be named because of its age. It writes nevertheless the registers of grievances of the nobility of the bailliage.

During the French revolution

Reformed by the revolutionists in 1791, he emigrates, then at the end of 1791, returns to France.

At the beginning of 1792, it emigrates again. It is him which is the author of the letter of a royalist with Mr. Malouet of the Tuesday, May 22, 1792 . It highly presses there its adversary and after having destroyed all sophisms, it announces an alarming crisis in preparation to him, which it is pressing to become exclusively royalist or republican and which it will not be possible any more to escape its fate under any subterfuge. He announces at the beginning of this year the 1792 proclamation of the republic before the other writers.

Armand François is useful in the army of the Prince de Condé in 1792.

At the end of 1792, it returns to France for the Procès of Louis XVI. It tries to save the King and discusses several times with the abbot Henri Edgeworth de Firmont.

And again in 1794, emigrates, with its wife Chartotte Levavasseur. It must be a captain of a company within the frameworks of Lorge which is not formed, but is named colonel with the service of king de France, in 1795 and it makes knight of the Royal and Military Ordre of Saint-Louis.

D' Allonville decides to turn over to France in 1795. It is found police chief of the wars associated, employee with the Armée with Italy (1797/98). It provides political and literary articles to newspapers: the , of Jean-Marie-Bernard Clément, known as Clement of Dijon, the historian and the literary newspaper of opposition of Colnet.

In July 1799, his wife, Chartotte Levavasseur dies.

He asked without success to be useful in the Italic Legion (1800/01).

In Russia

Considering this refusal of the imperial administration, in 1804, Armand goes to Russia and finds the Prince de Condé and his officers. He passes ten years there.

Russia is already an immense empire whose Armand François d' Allonville is one of the rare French to guess the invincible force. One allots to him the paternity of the plan of Barclay de Tolly which organizes the retirement of the Russian troops in the Campagne of Russia (1812).

Armand François d' Allonville is the secretary of the duke of Tightened-Capriolo, ambassador of the Royaume of Deux-Siciles close the court of Saint-Pétersbourg.

Because of its marriage with Munich, it recovers the memories of the famous marshal Burckhardt of Munich. It is at Rostopchine that it becomes acquainted with this young lady, who is already rather old and who lives the house. It is the abbot Henri Edgeworth de Firmont who blesses his union with Mittau, where it is exiled and Catherine of Munich has of the family. Rostopchine are the parents of the Comtesse of Ségur.

The Restoration

Named Brigadier in 1814, it returns to Paris, in 1815 and assists Alphonse de Beauchamp in the drafting of a biographical Précis on Louis XVIII .

Armand François d' Allonville publishes inter alia, the memories secrecies of 1770 to 1830 , which quotes abundantly François Bluche in the French nobility at the XVIIIe century ) and succeeds Alphonse de Beauchamp, in the drafting of the Mémoires drawn from papers of a statesman, on the secret causes which determined the policy of the cabinets in the war of the revolution, since 1792 until in 1815 .

At that time, Armand François d' Allonville very often meets the German cousin of his wife, celebrates it baroness Barbara Juliane von Krüdener placed in the hotel very dilapidated of the count de Montchenu, being next to the Elys3ee palace where his friend the emperor of Russia saw.

Armand François d' Allonville is selected to be a writer of the Journal of the Army and in the review of the Company of the historical studies.

Armand François d' Allonville tears off with his brother, Alexandre Louis d' Allonville, which are prefect in Rennes, the general Jean-Pierre Travot with death, in spite of the fact that it does not share his opinions.

Its descent

Armand François d' Allonville Marie with (1) Charlotte Vavasseur (August 23rd, 1769 - July 1799) in 1793, the widow of Mr. the baron de Béthune-Hesdigueuil.

It has a girl with his first wife:

Marie-Louise d' Allonville (1794-1877) X Alexandre Louis d' Allonville (1774-1852), prefect, Adviser of State, from where a girl Armande Marie Antoinette who Marie with the count Frederic of Mazis.

Armand also married (2) the countess Catherine of Munich (1785-1851), in 1804 in Russia. It is the girl of a general, the grand-daughter of the count Ernst of Munich, the back-small-girl of the famous marshal Burckhardt of Munich and also the German cousin of Barbara Juliane von Krüdener.

It has 3 children with his second wife:

Raphaël d' Allonville
Pierre d' Allonville (1821-1877), married in 1840 with Valerie de Lauzières-Thémines , her cousin (°1821), girl of Jean-Baptist-Alphonse, count de Thémines (+ 1877) and of Adelaide-Elisabeth-Armandine de Mertrus of Saint-Ouen (+ 1822).

. Their son, Emmanuel Armand d' Allonville d' Oysonville (May 15th, 1841 - 1912) written with Henri Dunant (founder of the Red Cross) of the Cape Martin in 1903, in the name of the imperial Prince and of the empress Eugenie de Montijo. This long fidelity of Henri Dunant in the world of the Second empire is attractive and undoubtedly deserves to be the subject of a separate study.

Catherine d' Allonville Marie at 16 years with Petr Nikolaevich Kapnist (1796-1865), a very rich Ukrainian aristocrat, young colonel of the imperial Guard (Russia). Indifferent to the sumptuous gifts of her husband, they divorce and it remarie young Russian the name Bobarykin .

The family of Allonville is extinct with this last descendant, after being quoted during nine centuries.

Quotations

D' Allonville claims that Danton would have made remove jewels (by making up the fact by a flight of gangsters).

One of the causes of the Revolution, according to Armand François d' Allonville: Sixty ten percent of the incomes of the minister Choiseul come from the King, the place of general colonel of Swiss and Grison, a large government, large the bailliage of Haguenau, the superintendence of the stations; what gave him 700.000 books of revenue in addition to the 300.000 that the duchess had brought to him. However this fortune did not prevent it from making debts which the King condescended to pay.

Three families alone, though they could be useful, neither services nor talents, received approximately three million in annual benefits: they was the Polignac, the Noailles and the Talleyrand. If the favor of Polignac is recent, that of Noailles, appears with Allonville, the two centuries crowning of courtisanery . This family joined together at the beginning of the Revolution, in addition to immense pecuniary treatments, two duchies, two sticks of marshal, two of the four companies of the bodyguards, two cords of the Holy Spirit… a grandess, a regiment owner, governments, embassies and places of court. the memorialist is made indignant but dissimulates hardly an involuntary indignation towards these Noailles, unceasingly divided between two parties of court in order to show itself there in the forefront. this stage it is true, the state of courtier merges with highest virtuosity. In short, all that of Allonville are not, is not or will be never, but would like to perhaps be…

Antoine de Rivarol often speaks about the good old day, firstly della Rivoluccione , here what into known as of Allonville, it is in garrison in Caen of 1778 to 1783: All the kinds of pleasures made for decent people were joined together around the castle of Harcourt: the walk in the delicious gardens, hunting in very giboyeuses forests, the conversation with men as educated as spiritual, with as tempting women by their spirit as by their figure; dance, music and over all the charms of the antique simplicity linked with those of modern elegance.

the court was insatiable honors, dignities and of money writes Armand-François d' Allonville. Of Allonville do not recognize themselves in this world of courtiers, robins and financial. Their destiny is played on the battle fields with the service of France. There exists , writes the count d' Allonville, the proprieties of the age, the proprieties of position, the proprieties of position… the proprieties forced people quite born with this kind of courtesy which seems to be forgotten for the others, which veils regard its superiority personal of birth, fortune or state which hide with its own love or its claims, which prescribes not to drop too much in front of the large ones and not to rise too much in front of its inferiors.

honor and the point of honor moral Mystery and insoluble policy! you live memories and hopes; you repais yourself in your dreams, and do not be less real and powerful! you do not harm any virtue and can lead to it, to compensate for all, while it is not which can replace you! One is sometimes guilty under your name, but never méprisable. This riddle for the education of the Dolphin hiding place the definition of the honor by the count d' Allonville, in 1788. The author sees in each company a driving principle, patriotism among Romans, the religion in Spain, the mercenary attitude in England. That of France is noble and more enlightened: it is the principle of the honor, species of national religion… patriotism of monarchies. It takes part of the Latin virtus and of the Christian virtues, prescribes imperiously honesty, the faith, delicacy, the tender with all the duties… , and causes production of with vanity even almost all the fruits of the virtue .

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