MONTMORENCY, MATHIEU JEAN FELICITE DE

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LAVAL

LAVAL
LAVAL, ANDRE DE, SEIGNEUR DE LOHEAC (c. 1408-1485)

, Duc DE (1766-1826), French politician, was born in Paris on the loth of July 1766. He served with his father, the vicomte de

Laval

LAVAL
LAVAL, ANDRE DE, SEIGNEUR DE LOHEAC (c. 1408-1485)

, in America, and returned to France imbued with democratic opinions. Mathieu de Montmorency was

governor

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

of Compiegne when he was returned as

deputy

DEPUTY (through the Fr. from a Late Lat. use of deputare, to cut off, allot; putare having the original sense of to trim, prune)

to the states-general in 1789, where he joined the Third Estate and sat on the left of the Assembly. He moved the abolition of armorial bearings on the 19th of June 1790. The dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in September 1791 set him free to join Luckner's army on the frontier early in the next year. After the revolution of the loth of August he abandoned his revolutionary principles; and he took no part in politics under the empire. At the Restoration he was promoted marechal de camp, and accompanied Louis XVIII. to

Ghent

GHENT (Flem. Gent, Fr. Gand)

during the Hundred Days. At the second restoration he was made a peer of France, and two years later received the title of viscount. He adopted strong reactionary and ultramontane views, and became minister of foreign affairs under

Villele

VILLELE, JEAN BAPTISTE GUILLAUME MARIE ANNE SERAPHIN, COMTE DE (1773–1854)

in 1821. He recommended armed intervention' in Spain at the Congress of Verona in October 1822, but he resigned in December, being compensated by the title of duke and the

cross

CROSS

of the Legion of Honour in the next year. He was elected to the French

Academy

ACADEMY, GREEK
ACADEMY, ROYAL

in 1825, though he appears to have had small qualifications for the honour, and in the next year became tutor to the six-year-old Henri, duke of Bordeaux (afterwards known as the comte de Chambord). He died two months after receiving this last appointment, on the 24th of

March

1826.
See Vetillard, Notice sur la vie de M. le duc Mathieu de Montmorency (Le Mans, 1826), and, for his curious relations with Mme de Stael, P. Gautier, Mathieu de Montmorency et Mme de Stael, d'apres les lettres inedites de M. de Montmorency a Mme Necker de

Saussure

(1908).

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