Charles Juste of Beauvau-Craon

Biography

Wire of Marc de Beauvau-Craon, 1st prince de Beauvau, and brother of the marchioness of Boufflers. He married in first weddings, on April 3rd 1745, Marie-Charlotte Sophie (1729 - 1763), girl of Emmanuel-Théodose of the Tower of Auvergne, duke of Bubble, of which he had a girl: Louise Anne Marie (1750-1834) which married '' Philippe Louis '' Marc Antoine de Noailles, Viscount of Lautrec. Widower in 1763, it married in second weddings in March 1764 Marie Charlotte of Rohan-Chub (1729 - 1807). This second marriage remained without posterity.

Entered like volunteer with the service of the France, he was lieutenant of cavalry on December 10th 1738, colonel of the Lorraine Guards on May 1st 1740 and was distinguished under the marshal from Beautiful-Isle to the Siège from Prague in 1741. Sergeant on May 16th 1746, Brigadier on May 10th 1748, general Lieutenant on December 28th 1758, it ordered as a chief the troops sent in Spain in 1762.

He was named Gouverneur Languedoc on June 12th 1747 then general governor of the Provence, where he could be made love nationals of this province.

Large of Spain of first classifies on May 11th 1754, it was made knight of the Ordre of the Holy Spirit on January 1st 1757.

Named in the French Academy in February 1771 whereas he had never written anything, he took an active part in academic work. He was also associated member of the Academy of Science, honorary member of the Académie of the inscriptions and the humanities (1782) and member of the Italian academies of Cortone and della Crusca.

He surrounded himself by a circle of men of letters among which Jean Devaines, the philosopher Jean-François Marmontel, the poet Jean-François of Saint-Lambert. The knight Stanislas de Boufflers, nephew of the marshal, animated his living room a long time.

Prince de Beauvau was made Marshal of France in 1783. In 1789, it was Secretary of State to the War for only five months. Partisan of the reforms, it was not worried under the Revolution and died in his bed right in the middle of the Terreur, leaving an inconsolable widow.

The marshal of Beauvau left his name to the hotel of Beauvau , Place Beauvau in Paris, where seat today the ministry for the Interior, of which he was the tenant of 1770 approximately to his death. With Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer, it had the Château of the Valley, where it accommodated Benjamin Franklin in 1778.

Partial source

External bond

biographical Card on the site of the French Academy

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