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Louis Marie de Noailles

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Louis-Marie, Vicomte de Noailles, painted by Gilbert Stuart, 1798. Metropolitan Museum of Art

Louis Marie de Noailles, Viscount of Noailles (17 April 1756 – 7 January 1804) was the second son of Philippe, duc de Mouchy, and a member of Mouchy branch of the famous Noailles family of the French aristocracy.[1]

Career

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de Noailles was born in Paris. He served under his brother-in-law the Marquis de Lafayette in America during the American War for Independence and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781.[1]

He was elected to the Estates-General in 1789. On 4 August 1789, during the French Revolution, he began the famous "orgy" (as Honoré-Gabriel Mirabeau called it) when feudalism was to be abolished, and the Duc d'Aiguilion proposed the abolition of titles and liveries in June 1790.[1]

Boarding of the British Hazard by Courrier.

As the French Revolution progressed and became more dangerous for nobles, he emigrated to the United States and became a partner in William Bingham's Bank of North America in Philadelphia. He was successful in the United States.

He accepted a command against the English in San Domingo, under Rochambeau. He commanded a defence of the Môle-Saint-Nicolas and escaped with the garrison to Cuba, but en route there his ship was attacked by a British schooner. After a long engagement, he was severely wounded, and died of his wounds in Havana on 9 January 1804.[1] de Noailles was a member of the Society of the Cincinnati from France.

Personal life

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He married his cousin Anne Jeanne Baptiste de Noailles (1758–1794), daughter of Jean Louis Paul François de Noailles, Duke of Noailles. They had four children:[2]

  1. Adrienne Theodore Philippine de Noailles (1778–1781), who died young.[2]
  2. Louis Joseph Alexis de Noailles, Count of Noailles(1783–1835), who married Cécile de Boisgelin (1797-1836), the only child of Marquis Bruno-Gabriel de Boisgelin and Cécile d'Harcourt-Beuvron.[2]
  3. Alfred Louis Dominique Vincent de Paul de Noailles, Viscount of Noailles (1784–1812) married Rosalie Charlotte Antoinette Léontine de Noailles (1797–1851), daughter of Charles Arthur Tristan Languedoc de Noailles.[2]
  4. Euphemia Cécile Marie Adelaide de Noailles (1790–1870), who married Olivier de Saint-Georges de Vérac, Marquis of Vérac (1768–1858), in 1811.[2]

Through his son Alfred, Viscount de Noailles, he was grandfather of Anne Marie Cécile de Noailles (1812–1848), who married Charles Philippe Henri de Noailles.[2] Through his daughter Euphemia, he was grandfather of Marthe Augustine de Saint-Georges de Vérac, who married Louis Marie Pantaleon Costa, Marquis de Beauregard (1806–1864) in 1834.[3]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Noailles s.v. Louis Marie". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 723.
  2. ^ a b c d e f Annuaire de la noblesse de France et des maisons souveraines de l'Europe (in French). Bureau de la publication. 1870. p. 314. Retrieved 16 June 2020.
  3. ^ Touraine, Société archéologique de (1890). Mémoires de la Société archéologique de Touraine: Série in-80 (in French). Société archéologique de Touraine. p. 490. Retrieved 16 June 2020.

Further reading

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  • François Furstenberg, When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation. New York: Penguin, 2014.
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