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
Saint-Malo (, , ; Gallo language, Gallo: ; ) is a historic French port in Ille-et-Vilaine, Brittany (administrative region), Brittany.
The Fortification, walled city on the English Channel coast had a long history of piracy, earning much wealth ...
, he 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:
France under the House of Bourbon:
* 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:
* Ab ...
, he was appointed brigadier, and
peer of France
The Peerage of France () was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 during the Middle Ages.
The prestigious title and position of Peer of France () was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the Fr ...
in 1815.
He was Ambassador in Denmark (1817-1819) and Russia (1820-1827), 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
Adrien Albert Marie, Comte de Mun (, 28 February 18416 October 1914), was a French political figure, nobleman, journalist, and social reformer of the nineteenth century. Born into a noble family de Mun joined the French army at a young age serv ...
.
He bought the castle
Boury-en-Vexin, in 1835.
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1777 births
1842 deaths
Politicians from Saint-Malo
Counts of France
Legitimists
Foreign ministers of France
Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration
19th-century French diplomats
Ambassadors of France to the Russian Empire
Ambassadors of France to Denmark