Charles Théobald de Choiseul-Praslin

Charles Laure Hugues Théobald Duke of Choiseul-Praslin

Charles Laure Hugues Théobald, Duke of Choiseul-Praslin (born June 29, 1805 in Paris , † August 24, 1847 in Paris) was a member of the French nobility . His suicide on charges of murdering his wife caused a scandal and contributed to the outbreak of the Revolution of 1848 and the fall of the July Monarchy.

The fifth Duke of Praslin married Françoise de Choiseul-Praslin (called "Fanny") in 1824, the daughter of Marshal Horace-François Sébastiani , who brought an important fortune into the marriage. They had 9 children, 6 girls and 3 boys. When the Duchess was found stabbed to death on August 17th, 1847 in the common house on Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré in Paris, suspicion quickly fell on the Duke, who was arrested on August 21st to be tried by the Court of Justice. However, the Duke evaded the trial by ingesting arsenic and died a few days later, on August 24th. He had been accused of murdering his wife, who loved him passionately, because of the governess of his children, Henriette Deluzy-Desportes.

A sketch of the crime scene published in the daily press with the traces of blood found marked

The July Monarchy was resented for failing to prevent the Duke's suicide and thereby avoiding trial, which seriously damaged the government's reputation. The events include the theme of Rachel Field's novel All This, and Heaven Too and the film of the same name that Anatole Litvak directed in 1940 (German title Hell, wo ist dein Sieg , also shown under Das Glück in der Glaskugel ).

literature

Pierre Larousse : Grand dictionnaire universel du XIXe siècle , 1875, volume 13, p. 34, digitized

Web links

Information on Charles Théobald de Choiseul-Praslin in the database of the Bibliothèque nationale de France .

Literature by and about Charles Théobald de Choiseul-Praslin in the WorldCat bibliographic database

Individual proof

↑ Notice historique sur la famille Praslin, esquisse sommaire des faits qui se rattachent à l'affreux attentat qui a terminé les jours de la duchesse . 1847 ( bnf.fr [accessed October 26, 2019]).

personal data
SURNAME	Choiseul-Praslin, Charles Théobald de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Choiseul-Praslin, Charles Laure Hugues Théobald de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Pair of France
DATE OF BIRTH	June 29, 1805
PLACE OF BIRTH	Paris
DATE OF DEATH	August 24, 1847
Place of death	Paris

[1] Notice historique sur la famille Praslin, esquisse sommaire des faits qui se rattachent à l'affreux attentat qui a terminé les jours de la duchesse . 1847 ( bnf.fr [accessed October 26, 2019]).