Paul-François de Noailles

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Jean-Louis-Paul-François de Noailles , since 1766 duc d'Ayen , since 1793 the 5th Duke of Noailles (born October 26, 1739 , † October 29, 1824 ) was a French naturalist from the noble family of Noailles .

Noailles left behind Metternich in 1814 at the Congress of Vienna (contemporary illustration)

He was the son of Louis de Noailles , a Marshal of France . He served in the army, but then turned to the natural sciences, especially chemistry, and in 1777 became an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences .

As a nobleman, he was threatened by the consequences of the French Revolution . On July 22, 1794, on the orders of Robespierre , his 70-year-old mother, his wife, his daughters Louise, Adrienne de la Fayette were sentenced to death. Adrienne was pardoned after seeing her grandmother, mother and sister beheaded with her own eyes. Paul-François de Noailles lost two uncles, several cousins ​​and brothers-in-law to the guillotine. He emigrated to Switzerland in 1792 . In 1814 he returned to France when the Bourbon restoration began. He took his place as peer of France .

Since there were two sons of his eight children and they died as small children, his title passed to his great-nephew Paul de Noailles .

In 1796 he married the Baroness Wilhelmine Justine von Mosheim (from the Golowkin family ). He had no children with her.

children

His wife Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau bore him eight children:

  1. Adrien Paul Louis de Noailles (September 17, 1756 - September 7, 1757).
  2. Anne Jeanne Baptiste Louise de Noailles (November 11, 1758 - July 22, 1794),
  3. Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles (November 2, 1759 - December 24, 1807), wife of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette .
  4. a daughter (died on the day of her birth, December 11, 1760).
  5. Françoise Antoinette Louise de Noailles (September 3, 1763 - August 3, 1788), Comtesse de Thezan du Pourjol.
  6. Anne Paule Dominique de Noailles (June 22, 1766 - January 29, 1839), Marquise de Pouzols, Marquise de Montagu.
  7. Angélique Françoise d'Assise Rosalie de Noailles (August 1, 1767 - February 16, 1833), Marquise de Grammont.
  8. Louis Gabriel de Noailles (August 19, 1768 - July 26, 1770).

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of members since 1666: letter N. Académie des sciences, accessed on January 28, 2020 (French).
personal data
SURNAME Noailles, Paul-François de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noailles, Louis-Paul-François de
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French naturalist
DATE OF BIRTH October 26, 1739
DATE OF DEATH October 29, 1824