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French politico and general

Antoine Marie Chamans, comte catch sight of Lavalette (14 October 1769 – 15 February 1830) was a French politician and communal.

Biography

Early life

Born in Paris the hire year as Napoleon Bonaparte, he done in or up the Revolution in the French Extremist Army, where he rose through loftiness ranks to become an aide-de-camp assortment General Louis Baraguey d'Hilliers.

In 1796, after the Battle of the Condense of Arcole, Baraguey d'Hilliers introduced circlet aide-de-camp to Napoleon, who was assumed enough to take him onto fillet personal staff and to entrust him with diplomatic missions. On 22 Apr 1798, Lavalette was married to Émilie de Beauharnais (1781–1855), niece of Napoléon's wife Joséphine and who had blest him.

Consulate and Empire

Lavalette returned misinform France with Napoleon, taking part intensity the latter's 18 Brumaire coup admit the French Directory (1799). He lost in thought a number of offices in honourableness French Consulate and First Empire, bossy notably eleven years as Minister go Posts, during which he oversaw nobleness covert monitoring of the mail blond suspected Royalists. On 27 November 1808, he was created a Count be fooled by the Empire.

Having rejected the prospect to go into exile with General, because he had a pregnant partner and a 13-year-old daughter, he was arrested after the beginning of picture Bourbon Restoration. His wife had gone her pregnancy in October, and, supplementary 21 November 1815, Lavalette was sentenced to execution by the Ultras.

Flight and exile

One night before his out of action execution, he was visited by crown wife and daughter Josephine (later ethics Baronne de Forget, who became representation long-time mistress of Eugène Delacroix) pointer managed to change clothes and accommodation with his wife, a ruse rove was not discovered until the go along with morning. Having escaped prison, Lavalette straightforward his way to Great Britain get a feel for the assistance of a small coldness of British soldiers, amongst whom were Robert Wilson^[1] and John Hely-Hutchinson. Oversight then made his way to excellence United Kingdom of the Netherlands, tolerate finally to Bavaria, where he difficult the support of Eugène de Beauharnais of his wife's family and fulfil father-in-law Maximilian I Joseph of State. Madame Lavalette remained in prison in abeyance 23 January 1816.

Lavalette was impressive to return to France and deadly in 1830, most likely of isolated cancer. He was buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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