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MONTMORENCY, MATHIEU JEAN FELICITE DE

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MONTMORENCY, MATHIEU See also:JEAN FELICITE DE MONTMORENCY-See also:LAVAL, Duc DE (1766-1826), See also:French politician, was See also:born in See also:Paris on the loth of See also:July 1766. He served with his See also:father, the vicomte de Laval, in See also:America, and returned to See also:France imbued with democratic opinions. Mathieu de Montmorency was See also:governor of See also:Compiegne when he was returned as See also:deputy to the states-See also:general in 1789, where he joined the Third See also:Estate and sat on the See also:left of the See also:Assembly. He moved the abolition of armorial See also:bearings on the 19th of See also:June 1790. The See also:dissolution of the Constituent Assembly in See also:September 1791 set him See also:free to join Luckner's See also:army on the frontier See also:early in the next See also:year. After the revolution of the loth of See also:August he abandoned his revolutionary principles; and he took no See also:part in politics under the See also:empire. At the Restoration he was promoted marechal de See also:camp, and accompanied See also:Louis XVIII. to See also:Ghent during the See also:Hundred Days. At the second restoration he was made a peer of France, and two years later received the See also:title of See also:viscount. He adopted strong reactionary and ultramontane views, and became See also:minister of See also:foreign affairs under See also:Villele in 1821. He recommended armed intervention' in See also:Spain at the See also:Congress of See also:Verona in See also:October 1822, but he resigned in See also:December, being compensated by the title of See also:duke and the See also:cross of the See also:Legion of See also:Honour in the next year. He was elected to the French See also:Academy in 1825, though he appears to have had small qualifications for the honour, and in the next year became See also:tutor to the six-year-old See also:Henri, duke of See also:Bordeaux (afterwards known as the See also:comte de See also:Chambord). He died two months after receiving this last See also:appointment, on the 24th of See also:March 1826.

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Notice sur la See also:vie de M. le duc Mathieu de Montmorency (Le Mans, 1826), and, for his curious relations with Mme de See also:Stael, P. See also:Gautier, Mathieu de Montmorency et Mme de Stael, d'apres See also:les lettres inedites de M. de Montmorency a Mme See also:Necker de See also:Saussure (1908).

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