Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg

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Marie-Charles-César-Florimond de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg (born February 11, 1756 in Grenoble , † May 28, 1831 in Paris ) was a French general .

Life

Marie-Charles-César-Florimond de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg, brother of Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg , came from an old noble house in Languedoc . He joined the royal army and was Colonel of the Regiment de Soissonnais when the French Revolution broke out. As a deputy of the nobility of Puy-en-Velay , he joined the imperial class assembly in 1789. In the National Assembly at the end of June 1789 he joined the third estate and advocated political reforms. He voluntarily laid down the privileges of his barony in Languedoc and voted for the incorporation of theAvignon county in France.

In 1791 La Tour-Maubourg was, together with Antoine Barnave and Jérôme Pétion, one of the three commissioners that King Louis XVI. and brought Queen Marie-Antoinette back to Paris after their unsuccessful escape to Varennes . As Maréchal de camp , he took over a command in the army corps of the Marquis de La Fayette and received command of the Grenadier and Jägerreserve and later of the vanguard during the campaign . Like La Fayette, he opposed the Tuileries storm of August 10, 1792 and the ensuing imprisonment of the royal family, and escaped like La Fayette on the following 19/20. August went abroad and was held for years in hard captivity by the Prussians and Austrians in Glatz , Nysa and Olmütz , until he was freed in Olomouc on September 20, 1797 at Napoleon Bonaparte's assignment.

In a letter to Napoleon, La Tour-Maubourg expressed his appreciation for him and after a stay in Hamburg he was recalled by Napoleon to France after the coup d'état of 18th Brumaire VIII (November 9th, 1799). In 1801 he became a member of the legislative body ( Corps législatif ). In 1806 he was appointed senator , and in that year he received the command of the Cherbourg military division and tried to build the port works here. In 1814 he was in Caen as government commissioner when Napoleon was deposed and sent his declaration of accession to the provisional government. He continued the business in Caen until Count Artois sent him to Montpellier to win over the population for the Bourbons . Louis XVIII appointed him during the first restoration to a peer of France , as which he vigorously defended during the session of 1814, the constitutional freedoms that he had Napoleon against overemphasized.

When Napoleon returned from Elba the next year and again took power in France during the reign of the Hundred Days , La Tour-Maubourg rejoined him and was appointed peer. When Napoleon's final defeat at the Battle of Waterloo became known, he defended individual liberty against police interference and violently opposed the bill on measures for general security. Louis XVIII excluded the defector from the Chamber of Peers in 1815 when he returned, but allowed him to re-enter by the orderly of March 5, 1819. Completely withdrawn from public life, the Count died on May 28, 1831 at the age of 75 in Paris, leaving behind seven sons.

progeny

His eldest son, Juste Florimont (1781-1837), was the French envoy to many European courts from 1806 and died as such on May 24, 1837 in Rome.

The second, Rodolphe, born October 8, 1787, enlisted in the French army in 1806, fought in Spain, became Maréchal de Camp during the Restoration, later Lieutenant General, Pair in 1845, and died in Paris on May 31, 1871.

A third, Armand Charles Septime de Fay, Count de Latour-Maubourg, born on July 22, 1801 in Passy, ​​became the French envoy in Brussels in 1830, in Madrid in 1836 and, after the death of his brother, in Rome. In 1841 he received the title of peer. He died on April 18, 1845 in Marseille.

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personal data
SURNAME La Tour-Maubourg, Charles César de Fay de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES La Tour-Maubourg, Marie-Charles-César-Florimond de Fay de; Latour-Maubourg, Charles César de Fay de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French general
DATE OF BIRTH February 11, 1756
PLACE OF BIRTH Grenoble
DATE OF DEATH May 28, 1831
Place of death Paris