François XIII of the Rochefoucaulld—Wikipedia

François XIII Armand Fréderic ^{[ first ]} de la Rochefoucauld (Paris, September 8, 1765 – Paris, November 17, 1848 ), Duke of La Rochefoucauld, is a French soldier and politician of XVIII ^{It is} And XIX ^{It is} centuries.

François de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Estissac, Maréchal des Camps and Armées du Roi.

The eldest son of François Alexandre Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt and Felicité de Lannion was known until the time of French Restoration under the name of Count François de La Rochefoucauld ^{[ 2 ]} .

Appointed an officer in the La Rochefoucauld Cavalry regiment in 1780 as a cadet-genius, he was promoted to second lieutenant in 1781.

From 1783 to 1787, he interrupted his military career to visit England, where he met Arthur Young, friend of his father.

In 1787, he was appointed officer in the regiment of La Rochefoucauld Cavalerie and promoted in 1788 Major second to the regiment of hunters on horseback of Champagne.

He emigrated after August 10, 1792, and first retired to Hamburg, then in Altona, where he married, the September 24, 1793 , Marie-Francoise de Tott, daughter of François, Baron de Tott, from an illustrious and former house in Hungary, marshal of the king’s camps, famous by the efforts he had made, in 1770, to discipline the troops European Ottomans ^{[ 3 ]} .

He joined the Ders Princes army, then in the English army, his presence is noted in particular to the Quiberon affair. In 1800, he returned to France, where he found his family and obtained his radiation from the list of emigrants in 1801.

In 1804, he was elected mayor of Liancourt until 1810 ^{[ 4 ]} .

Appointed, in 1804, candidate for the legislative body by the Clermont borough college, he is not elected, but is named, the May 2, 1809 , by the conservative Senate, deputy of the Oise in the lower chamber, where he signed until 1813 ^{[ 4 ]} .

He commanded the mobile national guards in Belgium, when he was called upon to sit in 1814 in the Chamber of Deputies. On May 6 of the same year, the king authorized him to take up the title of Duke of Estissac, which his grandfather had worn ^{[ 3 ]} . It was authorized, in 1817, to substitute the name of Liancourt to the one estissac , sold to a parent ^{[ 5 ]} .

Louis XVIII promoted him to the rank of Marshal-de-Camp October 23, 1815 , and names it to the first ^re military division ^{[ 3 ]} .

In 1815 and 1816, he chaired the electoral college of the department of Oise and was re -elected, the October 4, 1816 , deputy for this department, in the big college, by 101 votes out of 197 voters and 289 registered, against 89 in M.  Tronchon ^{[ 4 ]} .

The Duke of Estissac is created officer of the royal order of the Legion of Honor the August 24, 1820 ^{[ 3 ]} .

The May 3, 1827 , he entered the Chamber of Peers, by hereditary law, replacing his father, who died.

In May 1829, he sold the Domaine de Bélesta, before buying on July 31, 1829 the castle of La Roche-Guyon to his cousin Louis François de Rohan-Chabot, 8 ^{It is} Duc de Rohan ^{[ 6 ]} .

He is sworn in to Louis-Philippe I ^is , after the July 1830 Revolution, and sits obscurely at the Luxembourg Palace until 1848 ^{[ 4 ]} . He was commander of the Legion of Honor.

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Burel of silver and azure, with three rafters of gules broaching, that of the chief ecimé ^{[ 8 ] , [ 9 ]} .

Elder son of François XII (1747-1827), Duke of La Rochefoucauld and Félicité-Sophie de Lannion ^{[ 2 ]} (1745-1830), the Duke of La Rochefoucauld had for brothers and sisters:

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• Resource relating to public life :
• (in) Miroslav Marek, ‘ Genealogy de la Rochefoucauld 6 » , #6 , on Genealogy.eeweb.cz , 4th january 2005 (consulted the 22 mars 2012 ) ;
• ‘ François de La Rochefoucauld » , on Roglo.eu (consulted the April 4, 2012 ) ;
• (in) François Velde, ‘ Armory of the French Hereditary Peerage (1814-30) » , Lay Peers , on www.hentaldica.org , September 27, 2005 (consulted the June 18, 2011 ) ;
• ‘ François XIII de la Rochefoucauld » , on gw5.geneanet.org (consulted the April 7, 2012 ) ;
• Arnaud Bunel, ‘ European heraldry » , Duchy of La Rochefoucauld , on www.heraldique-europeenne.org , 1997-2011 (consulted the July 11, 2011 )

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• “La Rochefoucauld (François) Duke of Liancourt” , in Adolphe Robert and Gaston Cougny, French parliamentary dictionary , t.  III, Edgar Bourloton, 1891 , 640 p. [Edition detail] ( read online ) , p. 602 [ Text on Sycomore ] ;
• Jean Baptiste Rewardap , General Armorial , t. first And 2 , Gouda, G.B. Van Goor Zonen, 1884-1887 ‘ and its supplements » , on www.euraldic.com (consulted the December 23, 2011 ) ;
• “François de la Rochefoucauld, Duke of Estissac” , in Jean-Baptiste-Pierre Jullien de Courcelles, Genealogical and heraldic history of the peers of France: great dignitaries of the crown, the main noble families of the kingdom and the princely houses of Europe, preceded by the genealogy of the Maison de France , vol.  VIII, 1827 , 378 p. [Edition detail] ( read online ) , p. 70