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Pierre Louis Auguste Ferron, Count de La Ferronnays (1777–1842) was French Minister of Foreign Affairs from 4 January 1828 to 24 April 1829.
Life
Born in
Saint-Malo
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The walled city had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth from local extortion and overseas adventures. In 1944, the Alli ...
a few years after Chateaubriand, as he had himself participated in the campaign of the
army of Émigrés in 1792, then emigrated to England where he joined the
Duke du Berry.
At the
Bourbon Restoration Bourbon Restoration may refer to:
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* Bourbon Restoration in France (1814, after the French revolution and Napoleonic era, until 1830; interrupted by the Hundred Days in 1815)
Spain under the Spanish Bourbons:
* ...
, he was appointed brigadier, and
peer of France
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in 1815.
He held several embassies before becoming foreign minister in the Martignac ministry in 1828, for a short tome. During these years he maintained a friendly correspondence with
Chateaubriand, that he briefly mentions in his memoirs.
He had children:
* Charles, General Counsel of the Oise, the then deputy mayor of Gers and Boury-en-Vexin for 12 years, who married the Countess of Lagrange;
*
Pauline (1808–1891), by her marriage Mrs. Augustus Craven, novelist;
* Eugenie, by marriage Countess Adrien de Mun, mother of the speaker Albert de Mun.
He bought the castle
Boury-en-Vexin
Boury-en-Vexin (, literally ''Boury in Vexin'') is a commune in the Oise department in northern France.
Population
See also
* Communes of the Oise department
* Vexin
Vexin () is an historical county of northwestern France. It covers a ve ...
, in 1835.
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1777 births
1842 deaths
Politicians from Saint-Malo
Counts of France
Legitimists
French Foreign Ministers
Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration
19th-century French diplomats