PHILIPPE

LOUIS MARC

See also:

• ANTOINE, ANDRE (1858- )

ANTOINE  , duke of Noailles and prince of Poix (1752-1819), was born on the 21st of November 1752 . In 1789 he was elected deputy of the States-General by the nobility of the bailliages of Amiens and Ham, but was compelled to resign in consequence of a duel with the commander of the Garde Nationale at Versailles . He left the country for some time, but returned to France and took part in the revolution of the loth of August 1792 . He was, however, forced to quit the country once more to evade the fate of his father and mother . Returning to France in 1800, he lived quietly at his residence at Mouchy during the empire . At the Restoration he was brought again into favour and became a peer of France . He died at Paris on the 17th of February 1819 . Louts MARIE (17.56-1804), vicomte de Noailles, was the second son of the marshal . He served brilliantly under La Fayette in America, and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of York-town . He was elected to the States-General in 1789 . He began the famous " orgie," as Mirabeau called it, on the 4th of August, when all privileges were abolished, and with d'Aiguilion proposed the abolition of titles and liveries in June 1790 . When the revolution became more pronounced he emigrated to America, and became a partner in Bingham's bank at Philadelphia .

He was very successful, and might have lived happily had he not accepted a command against the

English in San Domingo, under Rochambeau . He made a brilliant defence of the mole St Nicholas, and escaped with the garrison to Cuba; but in making for Havana his ship was attacked by an English frigate, and after a long engagement he was severely wounded, and died of his wounds on the 9th of January 1804 .