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Henri-Godefroi-Bernard-Alphonse, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne, ''marquis de Saint-Paulet'' (21 October 1823 – 5 May 1871) was a French
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Henri-Godefroi-Bernard-Alphonse, prince de La Tour d'Auvergne, ''marquis de Saint-Paulet'' (21 October 1823 – 5 May 1871) was a French politician
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of the Second Empire Second Empire may refer to:
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* Second Bulgarian Empire (1185–1396)
* Second French Empire (1852–1870)
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who twice served as Minister of Foreign Affairs
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for Emperor Napoleon III.
De La Tour d'Auvergne was Ambassador of France to London
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(1863–69), in which capacity he was a signatory to the Treaty of London in 1867.
Personal life
He was the son of Melchior de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1794-1849), 1st Marquess of Saint-Paulet and 2ndBaron of the Empire
As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles of nobility to institute a stable elite in the First French Empire, after the instability resulting from the French Revolution.
Like many others, both before and since, Napoleon found that th ...
, and Laurence de Chauvigny de Blot.
He was married to Emilie Céleste Montault des Illes (1822-1857), daughter of Charles Montault des Illes and Emilie Adélaïde Bertrand. His only son was:
* Charles-Laurent-Bernard-''Godefroi'' de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1852-1903), 2nd Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, 3rd Marquess of Saint-Paulet and 4th Baron of the Empire
As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles of nobility to institute a stable elite in the First French Empire, after the instability resulting from the French Revolution.
Like many others, both before and since, Napoleon found that th ...
. Married in 1875 to Marie Léontine Ysoré d'Hervault de Pleumartin, daughter of Anne Antoine Ysoré d'Hervault, 7th Marquis de Pleumartin, and Césarine de Gars de Courcelles. He had three children:
** Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1876-1914), 3rd Prince de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, 4th Marquess of Saint-Paulet and 5th Baron of the Empire
As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles of nobility to institute a stable elite in the First French Empire, after the instability resulting from the French Revolution.
Like many others, both before and since, Napoleon found that th ...
. Married in 1904 to Elisabeth Berthier de Wagram (1885–1960), daughter of Alexandre Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram
Louis Philippe Marie "Alexandre" Berthier, 3rd Prince of Wagram (24 March 1836, Paris – 15 July 1911, Château de Grosbois) was a French nobleman and prince of Wagram. He was the son of Napoléon Alexandre Berthier and Zénaïde Françoise Clar ...
(grandson of Louis-Alexandre Berthier
Louis-Alexandre Berthier (20 November 1753 – 1 June 1815), Prince of Neuchâtel and Valangin, Prince of Wagram, was a French Marshal of the Empire who served during the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Wars. He was twice Minis ...
) and Bertha Clara von Rothschild (daughter of Mayer Carl, Baron von Rothschild).
** Charles de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1877-1940)
** Césarine de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais (1879-1947)
Ancestry
Honours and titles
* Marquis de France (succeeded his father in the marquisate of Saint-Paulet, 1849)/ref> *
Grand-croix, Légion d'honneur
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* Knight, Order of Malta
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* Knight, Order of Pius IX
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* Knight, Saxe-Ernestine House Order
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Knight Grand Cross, Order of the Red Eagle
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* Knight Commander, Order of the Two Sicilies
* Knight Commander, Order of St. Gregory the Great
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The order is one of ...
* Knight
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of the Order of the Gold Lion of the House of Nassau
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See also
*House of La Tour d'Auvergne
La Tour d'Auvergne () was a noble French dynasty. Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, for about half a century. Its cadet branch, extinct in 1802, ...
* List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
References
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