Camille de Lorraine

Camille de Lorraine, painting by Louis Carmontelle , 18th century

Louis Camille de Lorraine, prince de Marsan ( December 18, 1725 , † April 12, 1782 in Paris ) was a French nobleman from the House of Guise and governor of Provence from 1770 until his death.

Life

He was the youngest of six children of Charles Louis de Lorraine , Comte de Marsan, Prince de Pons (1686–1755), and Élisabeth de Roquelaure (1696–1752), daughter of Antoine Gaston de Roquelaure , Marshal of France . As a member of the House of Guise, he had the status of Prince étranger . He was called Prince de Marsan , was also called Prince de Puyguilhem , but he never used it, and was generally known at court as Prince Camille . With the death of his father in 1755 he inherited the county of Marsan.

On February 2, 1756, he was made a Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit , as were all the male members of his family. On June 6, 1758 he became lieutenant-général . On May 6, 1770 he was given the post of governor of Provence, which he held until his death.

1778-1779 he had also known as Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville known mansion in Paris, which he sold to Marie de Boisgelin, a canoness from Abbey Remiremont , which in 1782 to her brother, the Cardinal Jean-de-dieu- Raymond de Boisgelin de Cucé passed on, after whom this city palace is named as the Hôtel de Boisgelin .

His older sister Louise-Henriette-Gabrielle de Lorraine was married to Godefroy de La Tour d'Auvergne , the 10th Duke of Bouillon and Grand Chamberlain of France , from 1743 , his older brother Gaston de Lorraine (who died in 1743 and thus before his father) was the husband of Marie Louise de Rohan , called Madame de Marsan (1720–1803), who from 1754 was the tutor of the future King Louis XVI. and his siblings and fell out of favor in 1785 in connection with the collar affair.

Camille himself married in 1759 Hélène Julie Rosalie Mancini, called Mademoiselle de Nevers (born September 13, 1742), the daughter of Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini , Duke of Nevers ( Mazarin-Mancini house ) and Hélène Françoise Angélique Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain (1715– 1781), who in turn was a daughter of State Secretary Jérôme Phélypeaux , Comte de Pontchartrain; his wife was the widow of Louis Marie Fouquet de Belle-Isle , Comte de Gisors, a grandson of Nicolas Fouquet . The marriage remained without offspring.

Louis Camille de Lorraine died on April 12, 1782 in the Hôtel de Bouillon , the residence of his sister, the Duchess of Bouillon, in Paris; his wife died in November of the same year.

literature

• Detlev Schwennicke , European Family Tables , Volume I.2, 1999, Plate 213
• Jean Duquesne, Dictionnaire des Gouverneurs de Province , Éditions Christian, Paris, 2002, ISBN 2-86496-099-0 , p. 190