See also:COMTE DE See also:JOSEPH (1785-1870)
, See also:French See also:general and statesman, son of See also:Alexandre Sebastien de Flahaut de la Billarderie, See also:comte de Flahaut, beheaded at See also:Arras in See also:February 1793, and his wife See also:Adelaide Filleul, afterwards Mme de Souza (q.v.), was See also:born in See also:Paris on the 21st of See also:April 1785
.
See also:Charles de Flahaut was generally recognized to be the offspring of his See also:mother's liaison with Talley-See also:rand, with whom he was closely connected throughout his See also:life
.
His mother took him with her into See also:- EXILE (Lat. exsilium or exilium, from exsul or exul, which is derived from ex, out of, and the root sal, to go, seen in salire, to leap, consul, &c.; the connexion with solum, soil, country is now generally considered wrong)
exile in 1792, and they remained abroad until 1798
.
He entered the See also:army as a volunteer in 1800, and received his See also:commission after the See also:battle of See also:Marengo
.
He became aide-de-See also:camp to See also:Murat, and was wounded at the battle of Landbach in 1805
.
At See also:Warsaw he met See also:Anne See also:Poniatowski, Countess Potocka, with whom he rapidly became intimate
.
After the battle of See also:Friedland he received the See also:Legion of
1 Harmonie universelle (Paris, 1636), bk. v. pp
.
232-237
.
2 See See also:Sir See also:- THOMAS
- THOMAS (c. 1654-1720)
- THOMAS (d. 110o)
- THOMAS, ARTHUR GORING (1850-1892)
- THOMAS, CHARLES LOUIS AMBROISE (1811-1896)
- THOMAS, GEORGE (c. 1756-1802)
- THOMAS, GEORGE HENRY (1816-187o)
- THOMAS, ISAIAH (1749-1831)
- THOMAS, PIERRE (1634-1698)
- THOMAS, SIDNEY GILCHRIST (1850-1885)
- THOMAS, ST
- THOMAS, THEODORE (1835-1905)
- THOMAS, WILLIAM (d. 1554)
Thomas See also:- BROWNE
- BROWNE, EDWARD HAROLD (18,1–1891)
- BROWNE, ISAAC HAWKINS (1705-1760)
- BROWNE, JAMES (1793–1841)
- BROWNE, MAXIMILIAN ULYSSES, COUNT VON, BARON DE CAMUS AND MOUNTANY (1705-1757)
- BROWNE, PETER (?1665-1735)
- BROWNE, ROBERT (1550-1633)
- BROWNE, SIR JAMES (1839–1896)
- BROWNE, SIR THOMAS (1605-1682)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM (1591–1643)
- BROWNE, WILLIAM GEORGE (1768-1813)
Browne's See also:Works, vol. i. p
.
206
.
3 See Capt
.
C
.
R
.
See also:Day, Descriptive See also:Catalogue of Musical See also:Instruments (See also:London, 1891), pp
.
18-22 and pl
.
4; also See also:Complete Instructions for the See also:Double See also:Flageolet (London, 1825) ; and The See also:Preceptor, or a See also:Key to the Double Flageolet (London, 1815)
.
See also:FLAMBARD
See also:Honour, and returned to Paris in 1807
.
He served in See also:Spain in 18o8, and then in See also:Germany
.
Meanwhile the Countess Potocka had established herself in Paris, but Charles de Flahaut had by this See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time entered on his liaison with Hortense de See also:Beauharnais, See also:queen of See also:- HOLLAND
- HOLLAND, CHARLES (1733–1769)
- HOLLAND, COUNTY AND PROVINCE OF
- HOLLAND, HENRY FOX, 1ST BARON (1705–1774)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICH, 1ST EARL OF (1S9o-,649)
- HOLLAND, HENRY RICHARD VASSALL FOX, 3RD
- HOLLAND, JOSIAH GILBERT (1819-1881)
- HOLLAND, PHILEMON (1552-1637)
- HOLLAND, RICHARD, or RICHARD DE HOLANDE (fl. 1450)
- HOLLAND, SIR HENRY, BART
Holland
.
The See also:birth of their son was registered in Paris on the 21st of See also:October 1811 as Charles Auguste See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis See also:Joseph Demorny, known later as the duc de See also:Morny
.
Flahaut fought with distinction in the See also:Russian See also:campaign of 1812, and in 1813 became general of See also:brigade, aide-de-camp to the See also:emperor, and, after the battle of See also:Leipzig, general of See also:division
.
After See also:Napoleon's See also:abdication in 1814 he submitted to the new See also:government, but was placed on the retired See also:list in See also:September
.
He was assiduous in his attendance on Queen Hortense until the See also:Hundred Days brought him into active service again
.
A See also:mission to See also:Vienna to secure the return of See also:Marie See also:Louise resulted in failure
.
He was See also:present at See also:Waterloo, and afterwards sought to See also:place Napoleon II. on the See also:throne
.
He was saved from exile by Talleyrand's See also:influence, but was placed under See also:police surveillance
.
Presently he elected to retire to Germany, and thence to See also:England, where he married See also:Margaret, daughter of See also:Admiral See also:George See also:Keith See also:Elphinstone, See also:Lord Keith, and after the latter's See also:death Baroness Keith in her own right
.
The French See also:ambassador opposed the See also:marriage, and Flahaut resigned his commission
.
His eldest daughter, Emily Jane, married See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry, 4th See also:marquess of See also:Lansdowne
.
The Flahauts returned to See also:France in 1827, and in 183o Louis Philippe gave the See also:count the grade of See also:lieutenant-general and made him a peer of France
.
He remained intimately associated with Talleyrand's policy, and was, for a See also:short,time in 1831, ambassador at See also:Berlin
.
He was afterwards attached to the See also:household of the See also:duke of See also:- ORLEANS
- ORLEANS, CHARLES, DUKE OF (1391-1465)
- ORLEANS, DUKES OF
- ORLEANS, FERDINAND PHILIP LOUIS CHARLES HENRY, DUKE OF (1810-1842)
- ORLEANS, HENRI, PRINCE
- ORLEANS, HENRIETTA, DUCHESS
- ORLEANS, JEAN BAPTISTE GASTON, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE JOSEPH
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ROBERT, DUKE
- ORLEANS, LOUIS PHILIPPE, DUKE OF (1725–1785)
- ORLEANS, LOUIS, DUKE OF (1372–1407)
- ORLEANS, PHILIP I
- ORLEANS, PHILIP II
Orleans, and in 1841 was sent as ambassador to Vienna, where he remained until 1848, when he was dismissed and retired from the army
.
After the coup d'etat of 1851 he was again actively employed, and from 186o to 1862 was ambassador at the See also:court of St See also:- JAMES
- JAMES (Gr. 'IlrKw,l3or, the Heb. Ya`akob or Jacob)
- JAMES (JAMES FRANCIS EDWARD STUART) (1688-1766)
- JAMES, 2ND EARL OF DOUGLAS AND MAR(c. 1358–1388)
- JAMES, DAVID (1839-1893)
- JAMES, EPISTLE OF
- JAMES, GEORGE PAYNE RAINSFOP
- JAMES, HENRY (1843— )
- JAMES, JOHN ANGELL (1785-1859)
- JAMES, THOMAS (c. 1573–1629)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (1842–1910)
- JAMES, WILLIAM (d. 1827)
James's
.
He died on the 1st of September 1870
.
The comte de Flahaut is perhaps better remembered for his exploits in gallantry, and the elegant See also:manners in which he had been carefully trained by his mother, than for his public services, which were not, however, so inconsiderable as they have some-times been represented to be
.
See A. de Haricourt, Madame de Souza et sa famille (1907)
.
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