Arnouph Louis Joseph Deshayes de Cambronne (or Arnould or Arnoult) (b. March 26, 1768 in

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, Oise, d. 1846) was the major

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of the

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at the

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Early life

He was christened in the church of Saint-Denis en Crépy in 1768. His grand father Alexandre Deshayes comes from

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and his father, Joseph-Abraham Deshayes (1728,

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– 1795,

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), both directors of insinuations of the Apanage of

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and

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. His mother is Cécile-Louise-Marguerite Doyen (1738–1815). He married Rosalie-Zélie de Hémant (1781–) on January 20, 1806. She was the daughter of a master of the

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. He is the brother of Nicolas Alexandre Joseph Deshayes de Merville (1760–1816) who married Bonne Victoire Randon (1767–1824) in 1788.

Career

He fought in 1792 next to baron Félix Le Peletier d'Aunay during the battle of

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. They fought in the Company of Count du Comte de Laurétan to reach the Siege of Maastricht by the French revolutionary army directed by

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, under the orders of Jean Thérèse de Beaumont d'Autichamp. He was a volunteer in the Hussards of Hompesch commander by the Beaurepaire de Louvagny family in 1794, directed by the English before its settlement in

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in 1795. He joined the commandment of Franz-Simon Pfaff von Pfaffenhofen, Tyrol who made him an officer. During the Bourbon Restoration, from February 15, 1815 to 1826, he became adjudant of the

for the ultraroyalists. They were managed by

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, minister of Foreign affairs (1821–1822) of the government of

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and Durand Borel de Brétizel, with the agreement of the king, under the direction of the Count of Eugène François Léon de Béthune d'Hesdigneul and of

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. In August 1822, he was promoted to colonel by King

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and knight of the

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. He changed his name to Deshayes, as in Deshayes de Cambronne, during the La Rochelle affair and the ennoblement of the general

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. The latter was famous for his legendary word invented by

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, quoted by

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in ''

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''. He lived in the Château d'Orrouy, on the domain of Champlieu and was named adjudant major of the

, with Charles de Maillé de La Tour-Landry and ( Aide-de-camp) of the Comte d'Artois (future king

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), general colonel of the

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, before he dismissed, in 1827. He looked strikingly similar to him.''L’intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux'', 1905, p.741 He died in 1846, when the Gallo-Roman ruins of Champlieu within the territory of the municipality of Orrouy, were classified as historical monuments and owned by the General Council of Oise since 2007, traversed by one of the Brunehaut roads . He is the great-grand-father of

Claude de Cambronne Claude de Cambronne (23 October 1905 – 31 January 1993) was a French businessman. Early life He studied at the École nationale supérieure de l'aéronautique et de l'espace (Sup'Aéro), learnt how to fly to polar explorer, Paul-Émile Vict ...

and the great-great-grand father of

Laurence de Cambronne Laurence de Cambronne (born 1 May 1951, Casablanca, Morocco) is a French journalist, novelist and humanitarian. Biography Family and formation Descendant of Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne and Paul Cottin on her father's side and of Ernest P ...

Family gallery

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Awards

* Chevalier de l'ordre royal de la

Légion d'honneur The National Order of the Legion of Honour (french: Ordre national de la Légion d'honneur), formerly the Royal Order of the Legion of Honour ('), is the highest French order of merit, both military and civil. Established in 1802 by Napoleon ...

in 1822

Bibliography

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L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Cambronne, Arnouph de 1846 deaths Knights of the Legion of Honour Order of Saint Louis recipients 1768 births