Louis de Noailles

Louis de Noailles , count d' Ayen then (1737 - 1766) 1st Duke of Ayen then (1766) 4th Duke of Noailles, marquis of Montclar and Maintenon, count of Nogent-the-King, baron of Rooms, is a Marshal of France, born with Versailles the April 21st 1713 and died in Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer the August 22nd 1793.

Family

Wire of the marshal Adrien Maurice de Noailles (1678 - 1766) and of the duchess born Francoise Amable d' Aubigné (1684 - 1739), it marries on February 25th 1737 Catherine Francoise Charlotte of Thimble-Brissac (1724 - 1794). They have four children:

  1. Jean Louis Paul François de Noailles (1739 - 1824), Duke of Ayen then Duke of Noailles;

  2. Adrienne Catherine de Noailles (1741 - 1814), which marries (1755) Rene Mans de Froulay († 1814), count de Tessé;
  3. Emmanuel Marie Louis de Noailles (1743 - 1822), count de Noailles, known as the marquis de Noailles and of Maintenon;
  4. Filipino Louise Catherine de Noailles (1745 - 1791) which marries (1763) Louis Antoine Armand de Gramont, Duc of Lesparre († 1795).

Biography

Soldier, his states of service are impressive. At sixteen years, it is already Mestre of camp Régiment Dragons of Noailles (March 4th 1730). As captain of the Scottish Company (1731 - 1776), it fights with Kehl in 1733. Promoted Sergeant the 1740 and Brigadier the May 14th 1743, it fights with the Bataille of Fontenoy in 1745 and with the Bataille of Lauffeld in 1747. general Lieutenant the 1748, it fights with Hastembeck in 1757 before being high with the dignity of Marshal of France the March 24th 1775, more in consideration of its name and the number of its campaigns that its military engineering. It succeeds his father like Gouverneur of the Roussillon in 1766, remaining posts until in 1791 of it.

Excel courtier, it can be made admit in the good graces of Louis XV of which he becomes the close friend. Sharing the passion of the King for botany, it often makes him the honors of its experimental garden with Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. It is also at its sides in two essential circumstances: as aide-de-camp to the Battle of Fontenoy and as captain of the bodyguards of service the evening of the Attack of Damiens. Its witty remarks and its projections amuse Louis XV, even when they are exerted sometimes with his costs. One pays thus that the King, saying to him to the beginning of his connection with M {{me}} of Barry: “I know that I succeed Saint-Foye”, Noailles answered him: “Yes, Lord, as Your Majesty succeeds Pharamond”. Equipped with a pretty voice, it was the only courtier that M {{me}} of Pompadour admitted to play with her of small operas.

In 1789, it is named Gouverneur Château of Saint-Germain-in-Bush hammer. When the French revolution bursts, he refuses to emigrate and dies of old age before Terror does not reach its apogee, which enables him to escape the Guillotine. Its widow, 70 years old, on the other hand will be guillotinée on Thermidor 4, at the same time as their daughter-in-law, the duchess of Ayen, and than their grand-daughter, the viscountess de Noailles.

It is made knight of the Ordre of the Holy Spirit the February 2nd 1749 and knight of the royal and military Ordre of Saint-Louis before 1740.

References

Internal bonds

  • Family of Noailles

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