Henri-Stanislas de Verteuil de Feuillas
Henri-Stanislas Jacques François, baron Verteuil de Feuillas (24 August 1766 – 24 October 1844) was a French military officer, diplomat and newspaperman.
Biography
He was born at Rochefort, Charente-Maritime, the son Jacques-Alexis de Verteuil de Feuillas (1726–1793) and his wife Josèphe-Marie du Pont du Vivier de Gourville (1737–1794). Lieutenant colonel of the cavalry, he was later a noted journalist, working as general manager of La France.[1] He was sued several times for "attacks against the order of succession to the throne and the constitutional rights of the king, etc." and eventually sent to prison at Sainte-Pélagie. In 1840 Verteuil published a memoir about his time in jail.[2]
He died in Castres-Gironde at the age of 78.
Private life
He married Élisabeth Sophie de Montagnac (1777–1841); a widower, he married Catherine Louise Stanislas Godefroy de Framond (1776–1850) in 1842.
Notes
- ↑ "The Newspaper Press of Paris," Fraser's Magazine, Vol. XVII, No. 98 (1838), p. 228.
- ↑ Verteuil de Feuillas (1840). Un An de prison, ou Souvenirs de Sainte-Pélagie. Paris: Dentu.
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