Charles de Lameth

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Charles de Lameth, graphic by François Bonneville

Charles de Lameth , actually Charles-Malo-François, comte de Lameth (born October 5, 1757 in Paris , †  December 28, 1832 there ) was a French général de brigade of the cavalry .

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Lameth was the son of Maréchal de camp Louis Charles de Lameth and his wife Therese de Broglie, daughter of Marshal François-Marie de Broglie ; his brothers were Alexandre and Théodore de Lameth .

Lameth took part in the North American War of Independence , on his return commanded the Régiment Royal-Étranger cavalerie , was elected by the nobility in the National Assembly and stood in the same for a constitutional constitution and for reforms.

In the campaign of 1792 he commanded a cavalry division. Since he opposed the dethronement of the king and fought the Jacobins , he was arrested after August 10, 1792 and held for 27 days, then went to Hamburg , where he founded a trading house, and did not return to France until 1800.

In 1809 he was elected governor of Würzburg , in 1810 by the northern Spanish port city of Santoña and in 1827 as a deputy.

Charles de Lameth died in Paris on December 28, 1832 at the age of 75 and was buried in the Père Lachaise cemetery (28th Division).

Honors

literature

  • Ernst Ludwig Posselt : European Annals , year 1803, 1st volume, page 121, Tübingen, Cottasche Buchhandlung, 1803; Scan from the source
  • Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny: Dictionnaire des parlamentaires français, Vol. Vol. 3: Fes – Lav . Slatine, Geneva 2000, ISBN 2-05-101711-5 (unchanged reprint of the Paris 1991 edition)
predecessor Office successor
Alexandre de Beauharnais President of the French National Assembly
July 3, 1791 - July 19, 1791
Joseph Defermon des Chapellières