Victor-Thérèse Charpentier d'Ennery (March 24, 1732 – December 13, 1776) was the marquis, and later count, of Ennery and was also a governor general of
Saint-Domingue in the mid-to-late 18th century.
Family
Charpentier was born in
Paris
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,
France
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to Thomas-Jacques Charpentier d'Ennery and Madeleine Angélique Rioult de Curzay. Charpentier d'Ennery is the grandson of Jacques Charpentier d'Ennery, the Lord of D'Ennery and Espier. He had a sister, Cécile Pauline Charpentier d'Ennery, who married Gilbert de Chauvigny de Blot, a governor of Chantelle. On January 11, 1768 in
Paris
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, he married Benedicte d'Alesso, a descendant of
Philip I of France
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, and had one child:
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Pauline François de Paule Charpentier (died 1819)
married
Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis, son of
Francois de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis.
Charpentier also had another child with Olive Puybaudet:
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Geneviève Pauline Aimée Charpentier (1776–1850), who married Louis de Tibi (died 1802) and then married Joseph Castel.
Accomplishments
Charpentier was
Count
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and later the
Marquis of d'Ennery and also the governor-general of
Saint-Domingue. He was also the Governor of
Martinique
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from 1765 to 1768 and also the governor general of the
Windward Islands from 1768 to 1771, four years before his death.
Descendants
1) Pauline d'Ennery
Adele-Charlotte, Duchess of Levis
Raymond de Nicolay
Aymar de Nicolay
Gaston Francois, Duke of Levis
2) ???
3) Aimée CASTEL née D'ENNERY (many descendants, including):
Elisabeth Henriette DÉJOIE FRANGEUL née CASTEL
Charles FRANGEUL
Julia PRÉZEAU née FRANGEUL
Yvonne LIAUTAUD née PRÉZEAU
Gerard LIAUTAUD
Olivier Liautaud
Colette SANSARICQ née LIAUTAUD
Reginald SANSARICQ
Noëlle PEREZ née SANSARICQ
George PEREZ
Thomas PEREZ
Renée SANSARICQ
Julian SANSARICQ
Evelyne ORESKOVICH née SANSARICQ
Jean Paul SANSARICQ
Jacqueline MANGONES née LIAUTAUD
Jean Gilbert ROOZEN
Josette TKACIK née ROOZEN
Tomas Tkacik
Noble Titles
Because of his inability to produce a male heir, the title Count d'Ennery was not succeeded and died out after his death.
Death
Victor-Therese Charpentier died on December 31, 1776 in
Port-au-Prince, during the Uprisings. His final resting place is in a large, beautiful memorial commissioned by his widow and his sister, the Madame de Blot. The memorial portrays his widow and sister grieving by his grave with child. The memorial can be found in the Louvre Museum.
References
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Colonial and Departmental Heads of Martinique
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1732 births
1776 deaths
Nobility from Paris
Counts of France
Governors of Saint-Domingue
People of Saint-Domingue
French Governors of Martinique