Louis de Gobineau
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Louis, Comte de Gobineau (17 January 1784 – 15 October 1858) was an officer in the French Army and memoirist, better known as the father of Arthur de Gobineau.
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Biography
Louis de Gobineau was born at Bordeaux (Gironde), into a noble family of the gown of Bordeaux origin. His grandfather, Pierre Joseph de Gobineau (1696–1788) and his father, Thibaut Joseph de Gobineau (1729–1795), held offices at the Court of Aids of Guyenne and the Parliament of Bordeaux.[1] The second son of Thibaut-Joseph and Victoire de la Haye, he was brought up by his older brother Joseph (1775–1855), who was his guardian. On September 19, 1810 Louis de Gobineau married to Anne-Madeleine Mercier de Gercy.[lower-alpha 1] The couple had three children.[lower-alpha 2]
An ardent royalist, he was one of the loyal soldiers to emigrate and follow the Count of Artois to Ghent during the Hundred Days. Gobineau was imprisoned at Vincennes for having refused to serve under the Empire. His participation in Polignac's escape in 1813 had earned him imprisonment in Sainte-Pélagie, from which he was only released during the Restoration. After the July Revolution of 1830 and the accession of Louis Philippe, he lost his captaincy in the Royal Guard and moved his family to Lorient in Brittany.
He was a member of the secret Royalist society, Knights of the Faith.
Louis de Gobineau died in Redon, Ille-et-Vilaine.
See also
Works
- Les Mémoires du Comte Louis de Gobineau (1955; edited by Jean Puraye)
Notes
Footnotes
- ↑ Daughter of Jacques Philippe Mercier de Gercy (1753–1796), Controller-General of the Ferme générale in Bordeaux, and Jeanne Agnès Doyen (1755–1811).
- ↑ Arthur (1816–1882), Alix (1817–1821) and Caroline (born 1820). Caroline became a nun in Solesmes and took the religious name Bénédicte.[2]
Citations
- ↑ Guinodie, Raymond (1876). Histoire de Libourne et des autres villes et bourgs de son arrondissement, accompagnée de celle des monuments religieux, civils et militaires; de celle des ordres monastiques, Vol. 2. Libourne: Chez l'auteur, pp. 394–97.
- ↑ Rancoeur, René (1988). "Caroline de Gobineau: aux origines d’une vocation bénédictine." In: Hommes, Idées, Journaux. Paris: Éditions de la Sorbonne.
References
- Bertier de Sauvigny, Guillaume de (1966). The Bourbon Restoration. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press.
- Doyle, William (1974). The Parlement of Bordeaux and the End of the Old Regime, 1771-1790. London: Ernest Benn.
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