Juste-Charles de Faÿ de la Tour-Maubourg (1774–1846) was a French aristocrat and fighter in the

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Revolution

He was captured at

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, with his brothers, and

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, and imprisoned by the Austrians, but was soon released. He lived in exile until the release of his brother. After the Lafayettes release from Olmutz, he married Anastasie de la Fayette (1777–1863), at

Madame de Tessé Adrienne Catherine de Noailles, comtesse de Tessé (; 24 December 1741 – December 1813), was a French salon holder and letter writer. She was daughter of Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, sister of the 5th duc de Noailles and aunt of Marie Adrienn ...

's Witmold, on 9 May 1798.

Restoration

He rebuilt the family castle, le Château des Mayeux, destroyed during the Revolution by a fire. He became mayor of

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in 1830, and owned le Château des Mayeux until 1846.

Personal life

His father was Claude Florimond de Faÿ (1712 – 1790) and his mother was Marie Françoise de Vachon de Belmont (b.1712).

Brothers

His brother,

Marie Victor de Fay, marquis de Latour-Maubourg Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ, Marquis de La Tour-Maubourg (22 May 1768 – 11 November 1850) was a French cavalry commander under France's Ancien Régime before rising to prominence during the First French Empire. Under the Restoration, he s ...

, was a Cavalry Corps commander, survived the Russian Campaign, and was wounded at the

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. His older brother,

Charles César de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg Marie-Charles-César de Faÿ, comte de la Tour-Maubourg (11 February 1757, at La Motte-de-Galaure, Drôme – 28 April 1831, in Paris) was a French soldier and politician during the French Revolution and the First French Empire. His father was Claud ...

(b. 11 February 1757 – 28 May 1831) was also captured at

, and imprisoned with Lafayette in

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prison until September 1797.

Children

He married Anastasie de la Fayette (1777–1863), on 9 May 1798. She was the daughter of

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, and

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. She followed her mother

to Olmutz prison; she copied her letters from prison. After 1848 she lived in Turin with her daughter. Their first daughter Celestine married Baron de Brigode, and Jenny (the second) married

Comte Hector Perrone di San-Martino Ettore Perrone, Conte di San Martino (12 January 1789 in Turin – 29 March 1849) was an Italian politician and military leader. French military service He enlisted as a volunteer soldier, in the infantry in 1806, in the "Legion du Midi". He gr ...

(12 January 1789 – 29 Mar 1849), on 2 Feb 1833. He was a politician of the

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. His father was Carlo Giuseppe Perrone di San Martino, and his mother was Paola d' Argentero-Bersezio.

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attend the wedding. Comte Hector Perrone di San-Martino graduated from Saint-Cyr in 1806, was wounded at the

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, and three times at the

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. He was killed at the

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in the Piedmont, Italy, on 22 March 1849.''Classement de nos "cousins" Saint-Cyriens''
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References

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Just "Charles" César comte de La Tour-Maubourg ''The Empress Eugénie surrounded by her ladies in waiting''
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