Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

French noble
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Quick Facts

IntroFrench noble
PlacesFrance
wasWriter Politician Poet Playwright
Work fieldFilm, TV, Stage & Radio Literature Politics
Gender
Male
Birth15 February 1779, Liancourt, canton of Liancourt, arrondissement of Clermont, Oise
Death15 April 1863Paris, Île-de-France, France (aged 84 years)
Star signAquarius
Family
Father:François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt
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Biography

Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1779–1863), the third son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, was a French nobleman who, during Napoléon's brief 1815 return to power, fled to Switzerland and tried to organise a volunteer army in support of the restored French monarchy of Louis XVIII.

In 1827, the marquis was named chairman of the electoral college in Morbihan and in 1827 was elected to the French Chamber of deputies for Cher, holding the seat almost uninterrupted until 1846. He took no part in politics after 1848 and became a zealous philanthropist and a partisan of constitutional monarchy. The marquis wrote on social questions, notably on prison administration; he edited the works of La Rochefoucauld, and the memoirs of Condorcet; and he was the author of some vaudevilles, tragedies and poems.


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