Florent-Alexandre-Nickel silver of the Balsam
Florent-Alexandre-Nickel silver of the Balsam is the fourteenth and last count of Montrevel (born with Mâcon on April 18th, 1736, carried out with Paris on July 7th, 1794).
Sons of Nickel silver-Spirit of the Balsam and Marie-Florence of Châtelet de Lomont, Florent-Alexandre-Nickel silver of the Balsam, count of Montrevel and baron of Lugny, married on April 10th, 1752 Elisabeth-Celestial-Adelaide de Choiseul - girl of César Gabriel de Choiseul-Praslin - then, in 1769, Miss de Gramont. It succeeded in 1759 Jules Hercules Mériadec, prince de Rohan and duke of Montbazon, with the head of a regiment of infantry which, the time of her command - that is to say of 1759 to 1762 -, bore the name of “Montrevel” (old “Rohan-Montbazon” and future “Berry”). It bought in 1767 the beautiful hotel that Pierre-Anne Chesnard de Layé, lieutenant general of the bailliage of Mâcon (1746), adviser at the Parliament (1748) then president with mortar at the Parliament of Burgundy (1751), had made build with Mâcon a few years earlier and embellishes it by adding two wings to it.
Elected official appointed of the nobility of the Mâconnais to the State-Generals of 1789, it was one of the first to be met in the third-State. One of its castles - that of Lugny - was the first of the Mâconnais to being burnt at the time of the revolt known as “of the Brigands” which, during the Great fear, agitated this small area. By deliberation of May 20th, 1792 and act of March 8th, 1793, its private mansion of Mâcon was bought by this city to make of it its town hall with the help of the sum of 165500 pounds.
Stopped like suspect on February 22nd, 1794 and jeté in prison, he was considered to be guilty by the revolutionary Tribunal as accessory to a conspiracy woven with the Prison of Luxembourg where he was held (business known as of the “Conspiration of the prisons”). When its turn came, the president could however obtain from him only this only answer which makes enough know how much it knew any useless defense: “I have enough the life; you can make me die. ” Condemned to death, it was guillotine with Paris the 19 messidor year II (July 7th, 1794) with fifty-eight others marked. Old of fifty-eight years, it did not leave a descent.