Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais

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Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais (born April 6, 1773 in Langres , † February 15, 1842 in Paris ) was a French genealogist , archivist and heraldist . He is best known under the addition of de Saint-Allais , which he gave himself.

Life

He was born in Langres in 1773 as the son of the greengrocer Nicolas Viton and his wife Marie-Anne Lefume. At the age of 19 - during the revolution - he joined the army and became an adjutant to Guillaume-Marie-Anne Brune , who later became Maréchal d'Empire .

In 1808 he opened his Bureau général de la Noblesse de France as a genealogist , which he sold to Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles around 1820 . On August 19, 1824 he was made a Knight of the Legion of Honor . He died in Paris in 1842 and was buried in the Cimetière de Montmartre , Division 12, Avenue Travot.

Nicolas Viton de Saint-Allais married Marie-Anna Larmand, with whom he had a son, Jean-Paul-Maximilien-Auguste Viton (born January 24, 1800 in Bordeaux , † February 27, 1858 in Paris), the captain in the Foreign Legion has been.

Works

  • État actuel des maisons souveraines, des princes et des princesses d'Europe , Paris, 1805 online
  • Histoire générale des ordres de chevalerie civils et militaires existant en Europe , Paris 1810 Digitized
  • Dictionnaire encyclopédique de la noblesse de France , Paris, 1816
  • Précis historique sur les comtes du Périgord , Paris, 1839
  • Nobiliaire universel de France
  • Continuation de L'art de verifier les dates des faits historiques, des chartes, des chroniques et autres anciens monuments, depuis la naissance de Notre-Seigneur par le moyen d'une table chronologique ... ]

Remarks

  1. ^ Joseph Thomas, The Universal Dictionary of Biography and Mythology, Volume 4, 2010, p. 1942
  2. ↑ Annales de Bretagne, Volume 62/63, Université de Rennes et Nantes, 1955, p. 94
  3. ↑ Bibliothèque de l'École des chartes, Volume 161, No. 1, Librairie Droz, 2003, p. 525
  4. ↑ Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles, Dictionnaire universelle de la noblesse de France, Volume 1, 1820, p. 2
  5. ↑ Le Cahiers haut-marnais, No. 168-175, 1987, p. 134
personal data
SURNAME Viton de Saint-Allais, Nicolas
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French genealogist, archivist and heraldist
DATE OF BIRTH April 6, 1773
PLACE OF BIRTH Langres
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 1842
Place of death Paris