Bache-Elzéar-Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques (1720-1793) was a French aristocrat and public official. He served as the governor of

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from 1775 to 1782.

Biography

Early life

Bache-Elzéar-Alexandre d'Arbaud de Jouques was born in 1720 in

Aix-en-Provence Aix-en-Provence, or simply Aix, is a List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, city and Communes of France, commune in southern France, about north of Marseille. A former capital of Provence, it is the Subprefectures in France, s ...

Ambroise Roux-Alphéran Ambroise Roux-Alphéran (; 1776–1858) was a French public official and historian. Biography Early life Ambroise(-Thomas) Roux-Alphéran was born on 29 December 1776 in Aix-en-Provence. Career He served as clerk of the court of Aix-en-Provenc ...

,
Les Rues d'Aix
', 1848 His father was

André-Elzéard d'Arbaud de Jouques André-Elzéard d'Arbaud de Jouques (1676–1744) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and public official. Biography Early life André-Elzéard d'Arbaud was born in 1676. His father was Jacques Arbaud. Career He received the hereditary List of Fren ...

(1676-1744) and his mother, Anne de Citrany. He had three brothers: Jean-Joseph-Augustin d'Arbaud de Jouques, Gaspard d'Arbaud de Jouques, and François-Casimir d'Arbaud de Jouques. They grew up in the

Hôtel d'Arbaud-Jouques The Hôtel d'Arbaud-Jouques is a listed hôtel particulier in Aix-en-Provence. Location It is located at 19, Cours Mirabeau in Aix-en-Provence.Jean Boyer, ''Architecture et urbanisme à Aix-en-Provence aux XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles: du cours à carros ...

, a

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on the

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in Aix-en-Provence. His nephew, the son of Jean-Joseph-Augustin d'Arbaud de Jouques, was

André-Elzéard d'Arbaud de Jouques II André-Elzéard d'Arbaud II de Jouques (1737-1793) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and public official. Biography Early life André-Elzéard d'Arbaud II was born in 1737. His father was Jean-Joseph-Augustin d'Arbaud de Jouques (unknown-1768) an ...

(1737-1793). As a result,

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(1769–1849) was his great-nephew.

Career

He joined the

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in 1735, at the age of fifteen. He became an

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in 1745,

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in 1754,

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in 1762,

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in 1778, and

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in 1782. He served as

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from 1775 to 1782. He became Commander in the

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in 1785 and received 3,000

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s as a result. He was jailed in Aix-en-Provence for sedition in 1793, one month before his death.

Personal life

In 1778, he married his niece Françoise-Gabrielle de Bonnet-Costefrède, widow of Mr de Laugier-Saint-André.François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, ''Dictionnaire De La Noblesse: Contenant les Généalogies, l'Histoire & la Chronologie des Familles Nobles de France'', 1771, p. 62

/ref> They had no children and he had no heirs. He died on November 26, 1793, in Aix-en-Provence.

References

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