Auguste Le Tellier

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Louis-Auguste-Michel Félicité Le Tellier de Louvois (nickname Auguste , born December 3, 1783 in Paris , † April 3, 1844 ibid) was a French aristocrat and politician. He was Marquis de Louvois et de Souvré, Comte de Tonnerre (1785), Comte Le Tellier, Comte de l'Empire (1811), and a member of the Chambre des Pairs .

Life

Auguste Le Tellier was the eldest son of Louis-Sopgie Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois (1740–1785), and Johanna Henriette de Bombelles , Countess von Reichenberg (1750–1822). Due to the early death of his father in 1785, he became Marquis de Louvois et de Souvré and Comte de Tonnerre . During the revolution he emigrated and did not return to (now imperial) France until 1804.

He married on March 28, 1805 Athénais-Louise Philippine Grimaldi (born June 22, 1786 in Paris, † September 11, 1860 in Fontaine-Française ), Princesse de Monaco, daughter of Joseph de Monaco and granddaughter of Honoré III., Prince of Monaco . The marriage remained childless.

Napoleon I appointed him Chambellan de l'Empire , then in 1811 Comte Le Tellier and Comte de l'Empire . After Napoleon's fall, he joined Louis XVIII. and accompanied him into exile in Ghent during the reign of the Hundred Days .

In 1815 he received from Louis XVIII. a hereditary seat in the Chambre des Pairs , where he voted on December 6, 1815 for the execution of Marshal Michel Ney . In 1817 he was appointed Marquis-Pair as Marquis de Louvois, which was confirmed in 1819.

As mayor of Ancy-le-Franc , he installed a glassworks and blast furnaces there. In 1833 he was president of the Conseil général des Départements Yonne .

Since he remained childless, Auguste Le Tellier adopted his nephew Adolphe de La Salle, who inherited the title of Marquis de Louvois from him.

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Web links

  • Étienne Pattou, Famille Le Tellier & marquis de Louvois, Souvré et Courtenvaux , 2019 ( online )