Alexandre François Louis de Girardin

Alexandre François Louis de Girardin (born August 16, 1767 in Paris , † September 5, 1848 in Avranches , Département Manche ) was a French politician and landscape painter . He was the second eldest son of René Louis de Girardin and Cécile Brigitte Adélaïde Berthelot de Baye.

Life

Together with his siblings, he was raised according to the teachings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau , whom his father admired . From 1787 he attended the royal military school together with his younger brother Amable Ours Séraphin de Girardin (1769 – c.1795). In 1789 he was captain of the Dragoons . In 1793 he married his cousin, Alexandrine Reine Philippon Berthelot de Baye, in Ermenonville . From this marriage came a son, Alexandre Numance de Girardin (1794-1851).

He was imprisoned during the Jacobin reign of terror . From 1804 to 1815 he was a member of the legislature and a member of the Legion of Honor . Alexandre François Louis de Girardin was also an artist, as an amateur he devoted himself to landscape painting. He must have taken lessons from Jean Joseph Xavier Bidauld . Girardin's pictures were exhibited in the Paris Salon from 1822 to 1835 .

Jeanne-Victoire-Henriette de Montaud de Navailles, vicomtesse de Saint-Martin d'Arberonne, baronne d'Assat et de Mirepeix ( Adélaïde Labille-Guiard , 1790)

Alexandre de Girardin married again. His second wife was the widow of the Duke of Aiguillon , Jeanne Victoire Henriette de Navailles. From this marriage came two sons and a daughter: Stanislas Victor Euryale (1805-1857), Joseph Julie Eleuthère and Anne Marie Télésie de Girardin.

literature

• Michel Prevost, Roman d'Amat , H. Tribout de Morembert (ed.): Dictionnaire de biographie française . tape 16 . Letouzey et Ané, Paris 1985, Sp. 192-193 (1st line col. 193 f . faulty) .