Mathieu de Montmorency

Mathieu Jean Félicité, duc de Montmorency -Laval (* July 10, 1766 in Paris, † March 24, 1826 ) was a French general, statesman, diplomat and minister.

Life

He fought in the American Revolutionary War and rose to become a general. At the outbreak of the French Revolution, he represented in the Assembly constituante as a deputy of the nobility of Montfort l'Amaury, the idea of progress, applied on 4 August 1789, the abolition of the privileges of the nobility and served as the foreign powers France attacked, under Marshal Luckner. However, the events of 1793 led him to flee to Switzerland.

After the fall of the Reign of Terror, he returned to France, but took neither the Board nor under Napoleon I. a public office at. In 1814 he became adjutant of the then Count of Artois, conducted in 1815, the Duchess of Angoulême, Marie Thérèse Charlotte de Bourbon to Bordeaux and London and went to Louis XVIII. to Ghent. On August 17, 1815 his elevation to the peer of France, December 24, 1821 was appointed Minister of Foreign Affairs, and soon afterwards the President of the Cabinet.

As an ambassador he lived in 1822 the Congress of Verona in 1823 and operational intervention in Spain. But he still had to resign this year because of a rift with Villèle. To compensate, he received the title of duke and the cross of the Legion of Honour.

Charles X, who was particularly fond of him as a friend of the Jesuits, appointed him tutor to his grandson, the six -year-old Henri d' Artois, comte de Chambord. The Académie française in 1825 took him under their members, though he was hardly qualified for it.

Mathieu de Montmorency -Laval was the great-nephew of Cardinal Louis -Joseph de Montmorency -Laval ( 1724-1808 ).