Charles de Biencourt (1747-1824)

Charles, marquis de Biencourt , born the November 7th 1747 with the castle of Musfort (Digs), dead the December 23rd 1824 with the castle of Azay (Indre-et-Loire), is a French soldier and politician.

Engaged in the weapons, it is Brigadier at the beginning of the Révolution. Elected official appointed of the nobility to the General states for the Seneschalsy of Guéret the March 21st 1789, it is one of the first of his kind to join the Third-State and to vote the decrees of the constituent National Assembly.

After the escape of Varennes, he swears, with several other colleagues of the nobility, “to use the weapons given” in his hands “to the defense of the fatherland, and to maintain against all his enemies of the inside and the outside, the Constitution issued by the National Assembly, to die rather than to suffer the invasion from the French territory by foreign troops, and to obey only the orders which will consequently be given decrees of the National Assembly.”

After the end of this legislature, it gives up the political life.

Source

Dictionary of the French deputies of 1789 to 1889, volume 1, p. 311 to 320

External bond

Site of the castle of Azay-the-Curtain, bought by the marquis de Biencourt

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