François de La Rochefoucauld, 8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld

François XIII de La Rochefoucauld, 8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld (8 September 1765 – 3 September 1848) was a French aristocrat and writer.

François de La Rochefoucauld
8th Duke of La Rochefoucauld
François, Duke of La Rochefoucauld
Born(1765-09-08)8 September 1765
Paris, Kingdom of France
Died3 September 1848(1848-09-03) (aged 82)
NationalityFrench
Noble familyLa Rochefoucauld
Spouse(s)
Marie Françoise de Tott
(m. 1793; died 1848)
FatherFrançois Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld
MotherFélicité de Lannion

Early life

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De La Rochefoucauld was born on 8 September 1765 in Paris. was the heir and eldest son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt and the former Félicité de Lannion. Among his siblings were Alexandre, comte de La Rochefoucauld, who married Adélaïde de Pyvart de Chastullé (a San Domingo heiress allied to the Beauharnais family), and Frédéric Gaëtan de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis of Liancourt.[1]

Career

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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).

Personal life

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On 24 September 1793 he married Marie Françoise de Tott (1770–1854) at The Hague. The sister of French painter Sophie de Tott, she was the daughter of François Baron de Tott and Marie Rambaud.[2] Among their children were:

The Duke died on 3 September 1848 and was succeeded in the dukedom by his son, François XIV, who became the 9th Duke of La Rochefoucauld.[6]

Descendants

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Through his son François, he was a grandfather of François XV de La Rochefoucauld (1818–1879), 10th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, and Alfred de La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon (through whom he is ancestor of the La Roche-Guyon cadet branch of the family La Rochefoucauld).[7]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d Nobiliaire universel de France: recueil général des généalogies historiques des maisons nobles de l'Europe. 26th vol (in French). Archives de la noblesse. 1910. pp. 10–11. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  2. ^ Horbulák, Zsolt; Tóth, Ferenc (2020). "François de Tott (1733 – 1793) : Život a dielo jedného osvieteného diplomata". Historický Časopis. 67 (2). doi:10.31577/histcaso.2019.67.2.2.
  3. ^ Notice historique et généalogique sur la maison Chapt de Rastignac: Publiée par la famille (in French). A. Wittersheim. 1858. p. 131. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  4. ^ a b Tellier, Luc-Normand (1987). Face Aux Colbert: Les le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot... et L'Avènement du Libéralisme (in French). PUQ. p. 771. ISBN 978-2-7605-2289-3. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  5. ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France (in French). Au Bureau de la publication. 1896. p. 153. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  6. ^ Bulletin de la Société historique et archéologique du Perigord (in French). Société historique et archéologique du Perigord Périgueux. 1908. p. 395. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
  7. ^ Morris, Susan (20 April 2020). Debrett's Peerage and Baronetage 2019. eBook Partnership. p. 1989. ISBN 978-1-9997670-5-1. Retrieved 17 June 2024.
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French nobility
Preceded by  
Duke of La Rochefoucauld

1827–1848
Succeeded by