Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable of Albert de Luynes
Louis Joseph Charles Amable d' Albert de Luynes (1748-1807), Duke of Luynes, was a French soldier and politician. Although aristocrat, it had joined the Tiers state at the time of the constituent Assembly of 1789.
Biography
Louis Joseph Charles Amable d' Albert de Luynes is born in Paris on November 4th, 1748.He becomes Brigadier in 1781, then Colonel Général of the Dragons of 1783 to 1790.
In 1789, it chairs the provincial States of Touraine. The nobility of this baillaage having elected it, on March 28th, 1789, to represent it with the General states, it is those which adopt the Third-state, on June 25th, and which votes with the majority. The duke takes part so that it calls " measurements wisely liberal of the Parliament constituante" . He dislocates his load of Colonel Général of the Dragons in 1790. June 22nd, 1791, he claims, for the general officers like him, the honor to lend the oath of fidelity imposed to the civils servant members of the Parliament.
In spite of his titles and his great fortune, the duke of Luynes does not emigrate, and withdraws himself in his Château of Dampierre in 1792, where he lives apart from the policy until the Coup d'etat of the 18 brumaire. In 1793, an anonymous denunciation of concealment having been made against him at the committee Convention, the " citizen Albert-Luynes " must answer, but, in front of the absence of evidence, the regard and the affection which its control until there had been worth to him, the continuations are very quickly abandoned.
Named general adviser of the the Seine the 29 ventôse year VIII (March 20th, 1800), then mayor of the 9th district of Paris (November 25th, 1800), it adopts then the Empire, it is named with the preserving Senate on September 1st, 1803.
He is made member of the Légion of honor on October 2nd, 1803, then Commandeur on May 22nd, 1804. Louis-Joseph d' Albert de Luynes, duke of Luynes and duke of Chevreuse, duke of Montfort-l' Amaury, marquis de Dangeau, count de Dunois and count de Noyers, Baron de Bonnétable and Seigneur of Langeais, senator and par of France, die in Paris on May 23rd, 1807. It is buried with the the Pantheon of Paris, but its skin is returned to its family in 1862 (on its request).
References
Database histories of the French deputies since 1789, on the site of the National Assembly.
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