Amédée-François-Régis de Pérusse des Cars (30 December 1790 – 19 January 1868) was a French nobleman and soldier.
Early life
Amédée-François-Régis de Pérusse des Cars was born at
Chambéry
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Savoie
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France
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on 30 December 1790. He was a son of François-Nicolas-René de Pérusse des Cars, Comte des Cars, and Etienette Charlotte Dorothée Emilie de Ligny.
His paternal grandparents were Jeanne Marie Victoire d'Artaguiette de la Huette de Carvoisin and Louis-Nicolas de Pérusse des Cars, Marquis des Cars (a son of Louis François de Pérusse des Cars, Comte des Cars and Marquis de Pranzac, and the former Marie-Françoise-Victoire de Verthamon). His maternal grandparents were Adrien Charles de Ligny and Élisabeth Jeanne
de La Roche
The De la Roche family is a French noble family named for La Roche-sur-l'Ognon that founded the Duchy of Athens of the early 13th century.
People
* Alice de la Roche, (Unknown-1282) Lady of Beirut, Regent of Beirut
*Guy I de la Roche, (1205–1 ...
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Career
A member of the French army known as the
Hundred Thousand Sons of Saint Louis
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, he participated in the 1823 expedition mobilized by the
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King of France
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Classical French historiography usually regards Clovis I () as the first ...
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Louis XVIII
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, to help the Spanish Royalists restore King
Ferdinand VII
, house = Bourbon-Anjou
, father = Charles IV of Spain
, mother = Maria Luisa of Parma
, birth_date = 14 October 1784
, birth_place = El Escorial, Spain
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, death_place = Madrid, Spain
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of Spain to the absolute power of which he had been deprived during the Liberal Triennium. The Duke also commanded the 3rd division during the
French conquest of Algeria
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Duke of Cars
Duke of Cars (french: duc des Cars, comte des Cars) is a French noble title that was first created in 1816.
Creation of the title
Jean-François de Pérusse des Cars was created Lieutenant-General of the Armies on 22 June 1814 and Premier Ma ...
, at
Tuileries Palace
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on 10 November 1822 without male issue, the
dukedom
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became extinct. However, the title was renewed on 30 May 1825 for Amédée. Since its renewal, the title has been inherited by a son of the preceding Duke and remains extant to this day.
In 1828, he bought the Château de La Roche-de-Bran in
Montamisé
Montamisé () is a commune in the Vienne department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region in western France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Vienne department
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Vienne
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Nazi
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s in 1944 during
World War II
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Personal life
On 25 June 1817, Pérusse des Cars was married to Augustine du Bouchet de Sourches de Tourzel (1798–1870) at the
Château d'Abondant
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. She was a daughter of Charles Louis du Bouchet de Sourches de Tourzel and Augustine Eléonore de Pons. Together, they were the parents of:
* François-Joseph de Pérusse des Cars (1819–1891), a historian who edited the memoirs of his grandmother, the Duchess of Tourzel, and the memoirs of the 1st Duke of Cars; he married Marie Elizabeth de Bastard d'Estang (1824–1886).
* Amédée Joseph de Pérusse des Cars (1820–1899), Comte des Cars who married Mathilde Louise Camille de Cossé-Brissac, a daughter of Arthus Gabriel Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, nephew of the 8th
Duke of Brissac
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Louis XVIII
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* Henriette de Pérusse des Cars (1833–1911), who married
Charles Henri MacMahon, 4th Marquis de MacMahon
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Cannes
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on 19 January 1868. He was succeeded in the dukedom by his son,
François
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People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, Kin ...
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Descendants
Through his eldest son and heir François, he was a grandfather of Louis-Albert-Auguste-Philibert de Pérusse des Cars, who married Thérese Anne-Marie Lafond, a daughter of Étienne Edmond Lafond, Count Lafond.
Through his second son Amédée, he was a grandfather of Emilie Gabrielle Marie de Pérusse des Cars, who married
Admiral
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Charles-Marie Widor
Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor (21 February 1844 – 12 March 1937) was a French organist, composer and teacher of the mid-Romantic era, most notable for his ten organ symphonies. His Toccata from the fifth organ symphony has become one of the ...
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Through his daughter Marie-Paule, he was a grandfather of four: Casimir de Blacas d'Aulps, 3rd Duke of Blacas, 3rd Prince of Blacas; Louise-Henriette-Marie de Blacas d'Aulps (wife of Count René Hurault de Vibraye); Marie-Augustine-Yvonne de Blacas d’Aulps (wife of Alexander, 4th Prince of Sayn-Wittgenstein-Sayn); and Pierre de Blacas d'Aulps, 4th Duke of Blacas, 4th Prince of Blacas (who married Honorine de Durfort-Civrac, daughter of Marie-Henri-Louis de Durfort, 2d Marquis of Civrac).
Through his youngest daughter Geneviève, he was a grandfather of three: Antoin Manca-Amat, Marquis de Morès (who married American heiress Medora von Hoffman); Louise ''Claire'' Isabelle Manca de Vallombrosa (who married Christian Charles Louis, Count Lafond); and ''Amédée'' Manca, Comte de Vallombrosa (who married Adrienne Lannes de Montebello).