HOUDETOT

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HOUDETOT , a French noble family, taking its name from the lordship of Houdetot, between Arques and St Valery. Louis de Houdetot went with Robert, duke of Normandy, to Palestine in 1034, and the various branches of the family trace descent from Richard I. de Houdetot (fl. 1229), who married Marie de

Montfort

MONTFORT
MONTFORT, SIMON DE, EARL OF LEICESTER (d. 1265)

. Charles Louis de Houdetot received a marquisate in 1722, and on his son Claude Constance Cesar,

lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-general in the French army, was conferred the hereditary title of

count

COUNT (Lat. comes, gen. comitis, Fr. comte, Ital. conte, Span. conde)

in 1753. His wife (see below) was the Madame de Houdetot of Rousseau's Confessions. Their son Cesar Louis Marie Francois Ange, comte de Houdetot (17491825), was

governor

GOVERNOR (from the Fr. gouverneur, from gouverner, O. Fr. governer, Lat. gubernare, to steer a ship, to direct, guide)

of Martinique (1803-1809) and

lieutenant

LIEUTENANT

-general (1814) under the

Empire

EMPIRE

. His son Frederic Christophe, comte de Houdetot (177818J9), was director-general of indirect imposts in

Prussia

PRUSSIA
PRUSSIA (Ger. Preussen; Lat. Borussia)

after Jena, and prefect of Brussels in 1813. He acquiesced in the Restoration, but had to resign from the service after the Hundred Days. He became a peer of France in 1819, and under the Second

Empire

EMPIRE

he was returned by the department of

Calvados

CALVADOS

to the Corps Legislatif. His half-brother, . Charles Ile-de-France, comte de Houdetot (17891866), was wounded at Trafalgar and transferred to the army, in which he served through the Napoleonic wars. He retired at the Restoration, but returned to the service in 1823, and in 1826 became aide-de-camp to the duke of Orleans, becoming lieutenant-general in 1842. He sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 1837 to 1848, when he followed Louis Philippe into

exile

EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap,
consul
- CONSUL
- CONSUL (in Gr. generally ihraros,ashortened form of errpavgybs 8hraeos, i.e. praetor maximus)
, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)

. A third brother, Cesar Francois Adolphe, comte de Houdetot (17991869), was a well-known writer on military and other subjects.

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