Edouard of Fitz-James (1776-1838)

Edouard of Fitz-James , 5th Duke of Fitz-James (1805), is a politician French, born with Versailles the January 10th 1776 and died in the castle of Quevillon (Seine-Maritime) the November 11th 1838.

Biography

Wire of Jacques Charles of Fitz-James (1743 - 1805), 4th duke of Fitz-James, and the duchess born Marie Claudine Sylvie de Thiard de Bissy (1752 - 1812), Edouard of Fitz-James emigrated in Italy with its family as of the first times of the French revolution.

He followed initially his taste for the fine arts before engaging in the army of Condé, where he was used in quality of assistance-of-camp of the marshal as Castries. He travelled then in England where he married the May 2nd 1798 Elisabeth Alexandrine (known as Betsy) Vassor of the Key of Longpré (1775 - 1816). They had three children:

Antoinette Alexandrine Claudine of Fitz-James (1799 - 1837);
Jacques Marie Emmanuel of Fitz-James (1803 - 1846), 6th duke of Fitz-James;
Charles François Henri of Fitz-James (1805 - 1883).

Having obtained its radiation of the list of the emigrants, it returned to France in 1801 and lived withdrawn until the fall of the Empire. In 1813, it accepted the rank of Caporal in the first legion of the national guard and was sent with its legion to the barrier of Monceau the March 30th 1814, where it harangua his/her comrades to dissuade them to take share with the defense of the capital. The following day, day when the capitulation of Paris was signed, one saw it traversing the city with the Sosthènes Viscount of Rochefoucauld and some other young aristocrats, raising rosettes white and shouting: Lives the king! .

Under the First Restoration, it became assistance-of-camp and first gentleman of the room of the count d' Artois, colonel of the horse national guard and Pair of France (June 4th 1814). It accompanied the brother by the king in his round in the South of France and Lyon. After the unloading of with Gulf-Juan, it went to Ghent with Louis XVIII, returned to Paris to its continuation and took again its place with the Room of the pars where it posted opinions clearly Ultra-royaliste S.

The October 21st 1815, it proposed to vote thanks with the duke of Angouleme. It was announced by insistence that it put to claim the capital punishment against the marshal Ney, judged in front of the Room of the pars, and when this one had handed down its judgment, it was him which, the first, brought the news from there to the Palais of Tileries in the night of the December 6th 1815. It was not foreign with a lawsuit similar brought to his brother-in-law, the general Bertrand, and did not hesitate to publish a letter in which it affirmed that the general had lent oath to Louis XVIII. Its control in this circumstance, severely judged by the opinion, gave place to the publication, in one of the newspapers of time, the Quatrain according to:

Fitz-James, from Judas renewing the crime,

Comes to sell his/her brother and to betray his faith:

Fitz-James is however only the bastard one of a king!

What would be this, large God! if it were legitimate? …

Widower in 1816, it remaria the December 6th 1819 in Paris with Antoinette Francoise Sidonie de Choiseul-Gouffier (1777 - 1862). It did not have a child of this second marriage.

In 1817, the duke of Fitz-James fought the constitutional tendencies of the ministry, protested with the Room of the pars against the law of the February 5th relating to the elections, and pushed its hostility with regard to the duke Decazes until being made the defender of the freedom of the press, which he asked like counterweight the suspension of individual freedom. This attitude was worth enemies at the Court to him and it was put at the variation during some time.

It supported on the other hand of its eloquence incisor the count de Villèle and the count de Corbière, supporting the Loi on the sacrilege and the re-establishment of the Droit of seniority. It fought the ministry Martignac, more moderated, but supported all the acts of the ministry Polignac.

After the Revolution of 1830, it was solved to lend oath to the Monarchie of July and remained with the Room of the pars, where it was one of the most notable speakers of the left legitimist. It took an active share with the discussion of the bill which called up for the military service 80.000 men of the class of 1830 and, a few days later (March 2nd 1831), at the time of the disorders of the February 14th whose church Saint-Germain-the Auxerrois had been the theater, it traced a lugubrious table of the state of France and allotted it Malayan of the nation to the tergiversations of the ministers. He protested against the relative law with the banishment of Charles X and of its family, the heredity of peerage defended and, when this one was removed, he gave his resignation of par.

In 1832, shown to have assisted the attempts of the duchess of Berry to cause royalist risings, it temporarily was stopped then slackened fault of evidence.

The January 10th 1835, it was elected appointed by the 2nd college of the Haute-Garonne (Toulouse) to replace Berryer which had chosen Yssingeaux. It sat in the rows of the right-hand side and made with the platform several resounding speeches, in particular against alliance with the the United Kingdom (1837), about the quadruple alliance and of the intervention in Spain. Re-elected the November 4th 1837, it died the following year, during the legislature.

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