Prince Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille (24 March 1764 – 10 November 1839), 8th Duke of Thouars, 7th Duke of La Trémoïlle, 10th prince de Tarente, 14th prince de Talmond and 14th Count of Laval,
Almanach de Gotha
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, ''La Trémoïlle''. Justus Perthes
Johann Georg Justus Perthes (11 September 1749, Rudolstadt, Schwarzburg-Rudolstadt – 2 May 1816, Gotha, Saxe-Gotha-Altenburg) was a German publisher and founder of the publishing house that bears his name. Life
He was born in the Thuringian to ...
, 1944, p.463. French. was a French aristocrat and soldier; he was the son of
Jean Bretagne Charles de La Trémoille
Prince Jean-Bretagne-Charles de La Trémoille (5 February 1737 – 19 May 1792), 7th Duke of Thouars, was a French soldier and the son of Charles Armand René de La Trémoille and his wife, Marie Hortense de La Tour d'Auvergne of Bouillon.
Life
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and his wife Princess Marie-Maximilienne of Salm-Kyrburg.
Marriages
La Trémoille married
Louise-Emmanuelle de Châtillon in 1781. She was a grand daughter of
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc
Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, ''duc de Vaujours'', '' ''duc de La Vallière' (9 October 1708 – 16 November 1780), was a French nobleman, bibliophile and military man. The present '' duc d'Uzès'' and ''duc de Luynes'' descend from him.
...
, the famous writer. The couple had one daughter:
*Caroline (26 October 1788 – 15 February 1791).
At the outbreak of the
French Revolution
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, he sided with King
Louis XVI
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, as did the rest of his family. In 1789, La Trémoille and his parents
emigrated
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from France, and he joined the
émigré army under
the Prince of Condé. Two of La Trémoille's brothers perished in the
Reign of Terror
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. His wife was imprisoned in the
prison de l'Abbaye
The Prison de l’Abbaye was a Paris prison in use from 1522 to 1854. The final building was built by Christophe Gamard in 1631 and made up of three floors, flanked by two turrets (or more exactly, '' échauguettes''). It was the scene of a portio ...
until 1792, when she was permitted to join him in England. She became a writer and left England in company of her brother-in-law
Marie François Emmanuel de Crussol for the court of Russia around March 1797, where she was a maid of honour of
Empress Maria Feodorovna.
After the Revolution, La Trémoille returned to France. Following Louise-Emmanuelle's death, he remarried in 1817 to
Marie Virginie de Saint-Didier. They had two daughters:
*Charlotte (8 October 1825 – 21 December 1879), who married baron Franciscus Johannes de Wijkerslooth.
*Éléonore (17 January 1827 – 26 November 1846), who married prince
Frederick V, Prince of Salm-Kyrburg.
Following her death, La Trémoille married for a third time in 1830 to
Valentine Eugénie Joséphine Walsh de Serrant (7 March 1810 – 10 September 1887). They had two children:
*Marie-Henriette (1833–1890), who married André de Grandmange.
*
Louis Charles, (1838–1911) his heir as duc of Thouars.
La Trémoille died shortly after his son's birth, in 1839.
Ancestry
References
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1764 births
1839 deaths
Nobility from Paris
House of La Trémoille
French princes
Dukes of Thouars
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Counts of France
18th-century French nobility
19th-century French nobility
People of Byzantine descent
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