Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort

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Emmanuel Félicité de Durfort de Duras, Jean-Baptiste Lefebvre, around 1750, Château de Duras

Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort (born September 19, 1715 , † September 6, 1789 in Versailles ) was a French military, politician and diplomat. From 1733 (after his father's resignation) was the 4th Duc de Duras, from 1775 Marshal of France and member of the Académie française .

Life

Emmanuel-Felicité de Durfort was the son of Jean-Baptiste de Durfort , 3rd Duc de Duras, Comte de Rauzan, Baron de Pujols, de Landrouet et de Cypressac, Seigneur de Chitain, d'Urbize, de Cambert etc., Marshal of France, and Marie-Angélique-Victoire de Bournonville. In May 1733 he became the 4th Duc de Duras through his father's resignation.

His first military experience made in Italy as aide-de-camp of Claude-Louis-Hector de Villars († June 16, 1734), from whom he was promoted on March 10, 1734 to colonel of an infantry regiment named after him. In the following years he took part in all the wars of Louis XV. part. On February 20, 1743 he was Brigadier d'Infanterie , on March 6, 1743 Colonel of the Régiment d'Auvergne . On May 1, 1745 he was Maréchal de camp , on May 10, 1748 Lieutenant général .

From May 1752 to 1755 he was the French ambassador in Madrid. In 1755 he was promoted to Pair de France . In 1757 he became director of Comédie-Française and Comédie italienne .

In 1766 he became Baron de Castelnau-du-Medoc. On February 2, 1767 he was made Knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit , and in 1772 he was accepted into the Spanish branch of the Order of the Golden Fleece (No. 776). He was governor of Franche-Comté and premier gentilhomme de la Chambre du roi .

In August / September 1768 he was given the task of clearing up the " La Chalotais affair" as the successor to the resigned Duc d'Aiguillon in Brittany . In March 1775 he was appointed Marshal of France. On May 2, 1775 he was elected a member of the Académie française (Fauteuil 34).

family

On May 1, 1733 he married Charlotte-Antoinette de la Porte-Mazarin (* March 24, 1718, † September 6, 1735), the only daughter and presumptive heiress of Guy-Jules-Paul de La Porte , Duc de la Meilleraye et de Mazarin ( La Porte House ), and Louise-Françoise de Rohan-Soubise; she died before her father.

Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort and Charlotte Antoinette de la Porte-Mazarin had a daughter:

  • Louise-Jeanne de Durfort-Duras, born September 1, 1735, † March 17, 1781, 1738 Duchesse de la Meilleraye et de Mazarin, until 1747 Pair de France; ⚭ December 2, 1747 Louis-Marie-Guy d'Aumont, Marquis de Villequier, Duc d'Aumont, 1747 Duc de la Meilleraye et de Mazarin, † October 20, 1799

His second marriage was in June 1736 with Louise-Françoise-Maclovie-Céleste de Coëtquen, * 1724, † January 2, 1802, heir daughter of Marie Auguste, Marquis de Coëtquen (one of the "spirits of Combourg Castle " mentioned by Châteaubriand ), and NN de Châteaubriand. In 1761, the Duc de Duras sold part of his wife's dowry, including the county of Combourg, to René Auguste de Châteaubriand, the poet and statesman's father.

Emmanuel-Félicité de Durfort and Louise Françoise de Coëtquen had two children:

  • Emmanuel-Céleste-Augustin de Durfort, born August 18, 1741, † March 20, 1800 in London, 1789 5th Duc de Duras, Maréchal de Camp; ⚭ December 16, 1760 Louise-Henriette de Noailles, * August 23, 1745, † February 12, 1832, daughter of Philippe de Noailles, duc de Mouchy , Marshal of France ( House Noailles ), and Anne-Claire-Louise d'Arpajon
  • Charles-Armand-Fidèle de Durfort, born December 18, 1743, † 1804, Comte de Duras, Maréchal de Camp; ⚭ May 2, 1767 Marie-Josèphe Rigaud de Vaudreuil, * June 3, 1743, † November 23, 1781, daughter of Joseph-Hyacinthe de Rigaud, Marquis de Vaudreuil, and Marie Claire Guyot de la Mirande
Emmanuel Felicité de-Durfort, duc de Duras, Jean Valade , 18th century, current location unknown

title

4. Duc de Duras, Comte de Rauzan, Marquis de Blanquefort, Comte de Pujols, Prince de Bournonville, Comte de Hénin-Liétard and Marquis de Coëtquen, Baron du Castelnau-du-Medoc.

literature

Remarks

  1. ↑ Schwennicke, at Aubert: * December 19, 1715
  2. ↑ Schwennicke; at Aubert: initially called Comte de Durfort, due to the resignation of his father in May 1733, Duke and called Duc de Durfort ; he adopted the name Duc de Duras in February 1741.
  3. ↑ Erwan Chartier-Le Floch, Histoires de Bretagne: 1767. L'affaire La Chalotais ( online )
  4. ↑ Schwennicke, from Aubert: † October 6, 1735
  5. ↑ Mémoires d'outre-tombe , Volume 3, Chapter 3 Vie à Combourg. - Journées et soirées.
  6. ↑ Schwennicke, at Aubert: * August 28, 1741
personal data
SURNAME Durfort, Emmanuel-Félicité de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duc de Duras
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French military, politician and diplomat
DATE OF BIRTH September 19, 1715
DATE OF DEATH September 6, 1789
Place of death Versailles