Michel-Augustin de Goyon

Michel-Augustin de Goyon , born with Chantenay in 1764 and died with Chantenay in 1851.

Wire of Augustin Joseph de Goyon of the Abbey, lieutenant to the soldiers of the gardes-fran1caises, it enters this regiment. But in 1788, to express their solidarity with the Breton nobility, several officers of the soldiers of the gardes-fran1caises, whose Michel-Augustin, send their resignation. Under the Revolution, it is named officer of the constitutional Garde of Louis XVI.

In 1792, he emigrates in Hamburg where one finds it like associated in the commercial firm founded by Caspar Zeller.

He benefits from the amnesty to return to France and wife to Paris Antoinette de Laroche-Aymon in 1802.

Listener with the Council of State, he becomes sub-prefect of Montaigu, prefect of Aveyron, of the Mediterranean, of Coast-of-North. He gives his resignation during the Hundred Days, then is prefect of Yonne, of the Eure, and finally of Seine-et-Marne of 1820 to 1830. Commander of the Legion of honor on October 11th, 1814. He is the father of the senator Charles-Marie-Augustin de Goyon.

Sources

Jean Chagniot, Paris and the army with the XVIII° century, p. 637.
prefects of the 11 ventôse year VIII at September 4th, 1870, ED. Public records 1981.
Dictionary of French biography.
Napoleon Dictionary (under the direction of J. Tulard).

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