Charles-Marie de Créquy

Charles-Marie de Sault (December 18th 1737 - December 10th 1801, Périgueux), marquis of Créquy, Heymont, Blanchefort, Canaples, and other places, officer, essay writer and memorialist French, was the last marquis de Créquy.

Biography

He was the son of the marquis Louis-Marie de Créquy (1705 - 1741) and of Renee-Caroline-Victoire de Froulay (1714 - 1803), woman of letters who held living room with the philosophers (of which of Alembert) and short story writers.

During the campaigns of the War Seven Year old, it was distinguished and obtained various ranks in the regiment of the dragons of the king. It was Mestre of camp Régiment of Royal-Dragons (1761-1779) and for this reason took part during the Guerre Seven Year old in the attack on Kreimberg, where it attacked an artillery convoy and took seven guns. It made with the same body, part of the army of observation formed in Normandy under the orders of the Duc of Broglie, in and was named Brigadier the following year.

Endowed with a sharp and a varied instruction, friendly spirit of the letters and fine arts, the marquis de Créquy sought those which cultivate them, and offered honourable encouragements to them. It was inattentive at the time of the lawsuit which it had to support against the family the Young person of Furjonnière, which claimed to result from the house of Créquy: famous lawsuit, and on which intervened with the Parlement of Paris, the 1781, a stop which condemned the Young person to leave the name of Créquy; and pursuant to this stop it was striped of all their acts.

Pougens charges to the marquis de Créquy the philosophical Principes of Sts. recluses of Egypt, extracted the conferences of Cassien , 1778, in-18: it is an error, as all that it dictated with Barbier on the family of Créquy, and which this one collected in its critical Examen of the Dictionaries .

The marquis de Créquy had had of his marriage with Marie-Anne-Therese of Felix of Muy, Marquise of Muy and Sévigné, niece (and not girl) of the marshal of Muy, Minister for the war, a son Tancrède-Adrien-Raoul-Joseph-Marie de Créquy, Prince de Montlaur, which he survived. It was with Périgueux, the December 10th 1801, that house of the lords de Créquy illustrates it, one of oldest of the kingdom, died out in its person.

Works

  • Results of the Provincial Assemblies to the use of the States of a province (1 vol. in-8, 1788), Brussels, 174 p. This work treats economy and administration in a reforming spirit, near to the physiocrats. The author speaks about the tax, the land register, the trade and manufactures, agriculture, the begging as well as several projects of public property (free education, savings banks, etc).

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