Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, prince de Guéméné

Jules Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, 7th Duke of Montbazon and 8th Prince de Guéméné (born March 25, 1726 in Paris , † December 10, 1800 in Carlsbourg). He was the son of Hercule-Mériadec de Rohan (1688–1757), 7th Prince de Guéméné , and Louise-Gabrielle Julie de Rohan.

biography

His younger brother was Louis René Édouard de Rohan-Guéméné , the "Cardinal de Rohan" called Prince- Bishop of Strasbourg . At a young age he was called "Prince de Montbazon" before he inherited from his father in 1726 and became Duc de Montbazon and Prince de Guéméné. As a soldier, he had the title of field marshal.

In 1743 he married Marie-Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne (1725-1793), better known as Madame de Guéméné, was a daughter of Charles Godefroi de la Tour d'Auvergne, Duke of Bouillon , from whom he had a son, Henri Louis Marie de Rohan , later the 9th Prince de Rohan-Guéméné. Marie Louise de La Tour d'Auvergne became the official educator of the children of King Louis XVI.

The Prince de Guéméné and Madame de Guéméné did not stand out in their official functions, but rather through the splendor of their festivities, the splendor of their palace and their exuberant extravagance. Their financial outlay was so immense that the couple created a scandalous bankruptcy in 1783: their debts amounted to 33 million, the settlement of which could not be completed until 1792. The Prince de Guéméné fell out of favor and his wife had to give up her duties at court. The scandal sparked by the bankruptcy didn't calm down until his brother fell over the collar affair in 1785 .

The Princesse de Guéméné was executed in 1793; her husband died in 1800. Both their son Henri Louis Marie de Rohan (1745–1808) and his family left the country and founded the Austrian line of Rohan.