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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 808 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HOUDETOT , a See also:

French See also:noble See also:family, taking its name from the lordship of Houdetot, between Arques and St Valery. See also:Louis de Houdetot went with See also:Robert, See also:duke of See also:Normandy, to See also:Palestine in 1034, and the various branches of the family trace descent from See also:Richard I. de Houdetot (fl. 1229), who married See also:Marie de See also:Montfort. See also:Charles Louis de Houdetot received a marquisate in 1722, and on his son See also:Claude See also:Constance Cesar, See also:lieutenant-See also:general in the French See also:army, was conferred the hereditary See also:title of See also:count in 1753. His wife (see below) was the Madame de Houdetot of See also:Rousseau's Confessions. Their son Cesar Louis Marie See also:Francois Ange, See also:comte de Houdetot (1749—1825), was See also:governor of See also:Martinique (1803-1809) and lieutenant-general (1814) under the See also:Empire. His son See also:Frederic Christophe, comte de Houdetot (1778—18J9), was director-general of indirect imposts in See also:Prussia after See also:Jena, and See also:prefect of See also:Brussels in 1813. He acquiesced in the Restoration, but had to resign from the service after the See also:Hundred Days. He became a peer of See also:France in 1819, and under the Second Empire he was returned by the See also:department of See also:Calvados to the See also:Corps Legislatif. His See also:half-See also:brother, . Charles Ile-de-France, comte de Houdetot (1789—1866), was wounded at See also:Trafalgar and transferred to the army, in which he served through the See also:Napoleonic See also:wars. He retired at the Restoration, but returned to the service in 1823, and in 1826 became aide-de-See also:camp to the duke of See also:Orleans, becoming lieutenant-general in 1842.

He sat in the Chamber of Deputies from 1837 to 1848, when he followed Louis Philippe into See also:

exile. A third brother, Cesar Francois Adolphe, comte de Houdetot (1799—1869), was a well-known writer on military and other subjects.

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