Leonce de Vogüé

Leonce Louis Nickel silver, marquis of Vogue is a politician and French farmer born in Paris in 1805 and died in 1877.

Oldest son of Charles Elzéar de Vogüé, it loses his father at the two years age and is entrusted to the supervision of his mother, Zéphirine of Damas, which remarie with César Laurent de Chastellux. Initially intended for the military career, it enters to sixteen years to the Body of the Pages of the King to Versailles and takes part in the Campagne of Catalonia of 1823 and in the Expédition of Algiers of 1830 before leaving the army after the Révolution of July by fidelity with the Bourbons.

It settles then in Berry with his wife, Henriette Marie Marguerite de Machault d' Arnouville (1808 - 1864) (girl of Eugene Charles de Machault d' Arnouville (1783 - 1867) and back-small-girl of Jean-Baptiste de Machault d' Arnouville) which it had married in 1826. The couple will have nine children of which:

  1. Charles Jean '' Melchior '' (1829 - 1916);

  2. Robert (1835 - 1870);
  3. Pierre;
  4. Ursule (countess Charles de Bryas);
  5. Angelica (Raoul countess of Panouse);
  6. Louise.

With the autumn 1834, Leonce de Vogüé acquires the properties of Ivoy-the-Pre, including/understanding 3.000 arpents of wood and a forging mill. In 1846, to replace this one, it founds the factory of Mazières, close to Bourges, established along the Canal of Berry and intended to manufacture the large hardware requirement with the railroad. Two blast furnaces of the type Thomas and Laurens, various workshops and buildings of storing, are built starting from 1848.

Large traveller, large hunter, member of the Company of agriculture of the Expensive and the central Company of agriculture, founder of the Company of the farmers of France, it endeavors to improve the agricultural techniques while seeking the wellbeing of the peasants.

Leonce de Vogüé is elected general adviser of the Cher in 1839. He fails the delegation in the district of Sancerre in 1842. Accommodating the Republic of favorably 1848, it sits at the constituent Assembly like representative of Expensive. Re-elected to the legislative Parliament in March 1850, it is opposed to the coup d'etat of December 2nd, 1851. In 1849, it chairs the general advice of Expensive.

Leonce de Vogüé had inherited the great properties of his maternal family (Perrinet), including/understanding three castles in Sancerrois and Country-Extremely. It acquires castles of Vogue (1843) and of Rochecolombe (1840) his/her grandfather had been dispossessed, and saves the first of the ruin and installing there a school held by the congregation of Saint Joseph d' Aubenas, who will remain there until in 1860. In 1842, it buys the Château of the Glassmaking (Expensive) where it settles with its many family. His wife brings the to him Château of Thoiry (Yvelines) as well as the whole of the goods of Machault d' Arnouville, in particular of invaluable collections of pieces of furniture and of objects of Article In Paris, it settles in 1868 in a very beautiful private mansion lately built Rue Fabert where it lived until its death.

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