François XIII, duke of La Rochefoucauld (8 September 1765, Paris - 3 September 1848) was the heir and eldest son of
François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt. On 24 September 1793 he married Marie-Françoise de Tott (1770–1854) at
The Hague
The Hague ( ; nl, Den Haag or ) is a city and municipality of the Netherlands, situated on the west coast facing the North Sea. The Hague is the country's administrative centre and its seat of government, and while the official capital of ...
. Their daughter, Fanny, was one of the mistresses of
Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato
Count Anatoly Nikolaievich Demidov, 1st Prince of San Donato (russian: link=no, Анатолий Николаевич Демидов; 5 April OS: 24 March 1813 – 29 April 1870) was a Russian industrialist, diplomat and arts patron of th ...
, and bore him an illegitimate child.
Among his works are ''Mélanges sur l’Angleterre'' (a travel memoir) and ''Souvenirs du 10 Aoȗt 1792 et de l’Armée de Bourbon''. The former has twice been translated into English: first in 1933 as ''A Frenchman in England, 1784'' (translated by
S.C. Roberts); and subsequently as ''A Frenchman's Year in Suffolk, 1784'' (translated by Norman Scarfe).
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1765 births
1848 deaths
Dukes of La Rochefoucauld