Rene Eustace d\' Osmond

Rene Eustace d' Osmond , 4th Marquis d' Osmond, count de Boitron, is a French diplomat born with Fort-Dauphin (Saint-Domingue) the December 17th 1751 and died in Paris the February 22nd 1838.

Life

Native of Santo Domingo, wire of Louis Eustace d' Osmond (1718 - 1782), 3rd marquis d' Osmond, and of his wife Marie Elisabeth Cavelier of Garenne, it was sent in France and began a military career. Initially second lieutenant with the regiment of Chartres, he was captain with the regiment of Burgundy in 1771, Master of camp-lieutenant as a second of the duke of Orleans-Cavalry in 1776, colonel as a second of the regiment of Orleans in 1780, Master of camp ordering of the regiment of Barrois-Infantry, in garrison in Corsica on January 1st 1784.

His/her uncle, Gabriel Barnabe Louis d' Osmond (1716 - 1792), count d' Osmond, was attached to the person of the Duc of Orleans, Louis Philippe of Orleans (1725-1785). He introduced it at the court of this prince, of which he made name it Chambellan in survival. The marquis d' Osmond consequently became one accustomed of the Château of Holy-Base, where the duke had settled with his morganatic wife, the marchioness of Montesson.

March 15th, 1778, whereas it was in garrison with its regiment with Blanquefort, it married Éléonore Dillon (known as also Helene ) (1753 - 1831), resulting from a creole big family of the Martinique, related in Tascher of Pagerie. They had two children:

Adelaide Charlotte Louise Elonore, known as Adele (1781 - 1866), by her marriage countess of Boigne, celebrates memorialist;
Charles Eustace Gabriel, known as Rainulphe (1787 - 1862), 5th marquis d' Osmond.

On the authorities of the marchioness, which had been named lady-in-waiting of Mrs Adélaïde, of Osmond settled with Versailles: “My father, writes the Comtesse of Boigne, had a very great loathing with the stay of the Court; as all people who do not have the practice of it, it was dépaysé there and completely with its disadvantage. He was then an extremely pleasant man of forms, remarkably pleasant, strong good soldier, liking much his trade and adored in his regiment. its tastes, its practices, its high reason, its independence of character were put up little with the trade of courtier. ”

He repurchased in 1786 the carboniferous concession that the duke of Charost had obtained on the mines of Firminy and Rock-the-Molière, close to Saint-Etienne but he ran up against the hostility of the local owners who blocked the exploitation. Ordering of the old castle of Rouen, he resigned and entered the diplomacy in 1788. The Revolution supported the confusion of its mining establishment and it in vain tried to obtain constituent Assembly the confirmation of its concession.

Ambassador plenipotentiary with $the Hague in 1789, it was named ambassador with Saint-Pétersbourg in 1790 to replace the count de Ségur. But he resigned after Varennes without to have occupied his station and joined his family, which had emigrated in Suisse in 1792.

Erased list of the emigrants on the intervention of his brother, Antoine Eustace d' Osmond, constitutional bishop of Nancy, which had joined with Napoleon, it returned to France under the Empire. It was made by hereditary Louis XVIII general Lieutenant and even on August 17th 1815. It was named ambassador with Turin (1814 - 1815) then with London (November 1815 - January 1819). It had obtained in 1814 the re-establishment of its rights in its carboniferous concession but for lack of capital, it yielded those to the new company of Firminy and Rock-the-Molière in exchange of part of the actions.

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