Victor Scipion Charles Auguste de
La Garde de Chambonas (1750–1830) was a mayor of
Sens, brigadier general, and French foreign minister, at the beginning of the
French Revolution
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.
He was born in
Paris
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, the son of
Scipion Louis Joseph de La Garde, Marquis de Chambonas (1765) and of Louise Victoire Grimoard de Beauvoir du Roure. He married Josephine Louise Aurélie Aglaé Aimée de Lespinasse (1756–1788) on 4 May 1774 in
Paris
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; they had a son, Adolphe Aimé Charles (1778–1860).
He was Minister of Foreign Affairs from 17 June to 23 July 1792 in the Government of
Louis XVI
Louis XVI (''Louis-Auguste''; ; 23 August 175421 January 1793) was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution. He was referred to as ''Citizen Louis Capet'' during the four months just before he was ...
.
After
10 August 1792, he emigrated to London where he worked as a
goldsmith
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, was sued for debts and sent to a
debtors' prison
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. He returned to France in 1814 and died in Paris in 1830.
References
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1750 births
1830 deaths
French Foreign Ministers
French emigrants to the Kingdom of Great Britain
Politicians from Paris