Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles

Louis- Marie, vicomte de Noailles (* April 17, 1756 Paris, † January 7, 1804 in Havana, Cuba) was a French general and businessman.

Louis -Marie was the younger of two sons of Marshal Philippe de Noailles - Mouchy. He attended Lafayette's expedition to America and was the officer who completed the surrender of Yorktown.

He joined with enthusiasm the cause of revolution, was one of the first members of the nobility who converted to the National Assembly, requested on 4 August 1789, the abolition of feudal rights, then in command at Sedan and Valenciennes.

After the establishment of the Republic of France, he emigrated to America and became a partner in Bingham's Bank in Philadelphia. Under the Consulate he returned and then went under Rochambeau as a brigadier general to Haiti, it defended against the British and died of his wounds in 1804 in Havana, Cuba.

His older brother was Philippe -Louis -Marc -Antoine de Noailles.

Honors

His name is inscribed on the Arc de Triomphe in Paris in the 40th column.