Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg



















































Victor de Faÿ,
marquis de La Tour-Maubourg
Général Marie Victor Nicolas de Fay de La Tour Maubourg.jpg
Born
22 May 1768 (1768-05-22)
Château de La Motte, Galaure
Died
11 November 1850 (1850-11-12) (aged 82)
Dammarie-lès-Lys, Île-de-France
Allegiance
 France
Service/branch Army
Rank
Général de division
(Major-General)
Unit French Royal Horse Guards
Commands held IV Reserve Cavalry Corps (Brig.);
I Cavalry Corps (Maj-Gen.)
Battles/wars
Napoleonic Wars

  • Battle of Alexandria (1801)

  • battle of Austerlitz

  • Battle of Jena-Auerstedt

  • Battle of Heilsberg

  • Battle of Friedland

  • Battle of Uclés (1809)

  • Battle of Villafranca (1809)

  • Battle of Medellín

  • Battle of Talavera

  • Battle of Ocana

  • Battle of the Gebora

  • Battle of Albuera

  • Battle of Usagre

  • Battle of Borodino

  • Battle of Bautzen

  • Battle of Lützen (1813)

  • Battle of Dresden

  • Battle of Leipzig
Awards
Crown of a Marquis of France.svg Marquis of France

  • Order of the Reunion

  • Legion of Honour

  • Order of Saint Louis

  • Order of Malta

  • Order of the Holy Spirit
Relations
Wife: Petronella-Jacoba, dau of General Albert van Rijssel
Brothers: Charles-César de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg;
Juste-Charles de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg
Other work
Politician:


  • Minister of Defence;


  • Governor of Les Invalides
    (1822-1830)


  • Peer of the Realm (Bourbon Restoration)


Ambassadeur de France

Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ, marquis de La Tour-Maubourg (22 May 1768 at Château de La Motte-de-Galaure, near Grenoble – 11 November 1850 at Dammarie-lès-Lys, Île-de-France) was a French cavalry military commander under France's Ancien Régime before rising to prominence during the First French Empire.


Under the Restoration, he served as a diplomat and parliamentarian; after being created a Marquis, he was also briefly in government as Minister of War between 1819 and 1821.[1]




Contents






  • 1 Early years and family


  • 2 Egypt


  • 3 Campaigns of 1805-07


  • 4 Spain and Russia


  • 5 Restoration of the Monarchy


  • 6 Honours and titles


  • 7 See also


  • 8 External links


  • 9 Notes





Early years and family





Ancestral arms de Faÿ


Of aristocratic descent, his father was Claude-Florimond de Faÿ, comte de Coisse (1712–1790)[2] and his mother was Marie-Françoise (1712-1793), daughter of Nicolas de Vachon, marquis de Belmont.


De Faÿ joined the French Army as a Sous-lieutenant in the Gardes du Corps.[3]
He was promoted Colonel of the 3rd Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment, 5 February 1792, before serving at Philippeville, Grisvelle and Maubeuge.


In August 1792, he was captured by the Austrians at Rochefort being taken prisoner with Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette. However, his release was quickly negotiated while his brother was eventually released only after the Treaty of Campo-Formio in 1797.


De Faÿ then became an émigré living in Hamburg and Brussels. In 1804 at Utrecht, Colonel de Faÿ married Pétronille van Rijssel (later styled marquise de La Tour-Maubourg), who predeceased him on 17 July 1844.[4]


His elder brother, Charles-César de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg was also a French Army general, and his younger brother, Juste-Charles de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg was married to Anastasie de La Fayette (1777–1863).



Egypt


At the end of 1799 de Faÿ returned to France and was posted to Egypt by the First Consul. There he served as Aide-de-Camp to General Kléber, who both received head wounds at Alexandria caused by an incendiary-device, 13 March 1801. After Kléber's assassination he was appointed AdC to General Menou.



Campaigns of 1805-07


De Faÿ was present at the Battle of Austerlitz and served in Germany under General Milhaud, commanding the 22nd Chasseurs-à-Cheval Regiment, part of Marshal Murat's Reserve Cavalry Corps; shortly afterwards, on 24 December 1805, he was appointed Brigadier-General.


He then served in the War of the Fourth Coalition during the Prussia and Poland campaigns, and fought at Jena. He was then seconded to the 3rd Dragoon Division under General Carrière de Beaumont's command. He was promoted Général de division on 14 May 1807 and commanded the 1st Dragoon Division at the Battle of Heilsberg;[5] he suffered battle wounds at Friedland, where his division was supporting the right flank of Marshal Victor's I Corps.[6]



Spain and Russia


See also: Peninsular War, French invasion of Russia, and Battle of Leipzig

In 1808, de Faÿ commanded the Armée du Midi Cavalry under Marshal Jean-Baptiste Bessières (later Duc d'Istria), Marshal Victor (later Duc de Belluno) and Marshal Soult (later Duc de Dalmatie then Prime Minister) in the Spanish Peninsular War. He served at the Fall of Madrid, and at the battles of Uclés, Cuenca, Medellín, Talavera, Ocana, Gebora, Albuquerque, Albuera,[7]Usagre, Elvas, being wounded at Villafranca;[8] one of his dispatches was intercepted and deciphered by the British.[9]


In May 1808, de Faÿ was created a Baron de l'Empire in addition to his ancient family titles: they were Counts of Coisse in France.


Baron de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg was appointed General commanding the IV Cavalry Corps for Napoleon's March on Moscow. He was wounded at the Battle of Borodino, was noted for his distinguished and gallant service at Mozhaysk leading France's Sacred Squadron,[10] and having survived the retreat, later commanded the I Cavalry Corps at Bautzen, Reichenbach[11]Goldberg, Lutzen,[12] and Dresden.


At Wachau, during the Battle of Leipzig, Baron de Faÿ's 1st Cavalry Corps along with François-Étienne de Kellermann, duc de Valmy's 3rd Cavalry Corps and the Dragoon Guards charged the center of Eugen von Württemberg's line; the Duke of Württemberg's Imperial Russian Guards then counter-attacked, stabilizing their position.[13]
He lost a leg from the knee, famously stating when his valet wept upon sight of his injury: "What are you crying about, man, you have one less boot to polish".[14]



The amputation was administered by the celebrated French Army surgeon, Baron Dominique-Jean Larrey, who noted in his memoirs:


"he [de Faÿ] was hit by a small caliber ball which smashed his right knee to pieces, a serious wound which required amputation below the thigh, requested by the casualty himself: I immediately practised it under enemy fire. It was completed in less than three minutes".[15]



Restoration of the Monarchy


With the restoration of the Bourbons he swore allegiance to Louis XVIII and his loyalty to the king during the Hundred Days[16] was rewarded by being created a Pair de France, 1814 and advanced as Marquis in 1817.


De Faÿ served in several diplomatic posts, including appointment as Ambassador to London in 1819, where he corresponded with Lord Castlereagh.[17] He was briefly Minister of War (November 1819 - December 1821), and Governor of Les Invalides (December 1821), as well as sitting on the Tribunal which sentenced the French Marshal Prince Michel Ney to death.


In August 1831, he commenced negotiations with the Belgians (his wife's family was Flemish) regarding frontier forts, before the British intervened.[18]



Honours and titles




Collar of the Saint-Esprit




  • Biret baron.png Baron de l'Empire


  • Crown of a Marquis of France.svg Marquis de France


  • Ordre Imperial de la Reunion Chevalier ribbon.svg Grand-croix, Ordre de la Réunion


  • Legion Honneur GC ribbon.svg Grand-croix, Légion d'honneur


  • Ordre Royal et Militaire de Saint-Louis Chevalier ribbon.svg Grand-croix, Ordre de Saint-Louis


  • SMOM-gc.svg Chevalier, Ordre de Malte


  • Ordre du Saint-Esprit Chevalier ribbon.svg Chevalier, Ordre du Saint-Esprit.



See also



  • Château de Maubourg

  • Marquisate de La Tour-Maubourg

  • La Tour-Maubourg (Paris Métro)

  • List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom



External links



  • Terry J. Senior, "The Top Twenty French Cavalry Commanders: #11. General Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg"


  • General Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg, VirtualArc

  • National Portrait Gallery, London


  • NPG D15780, Marie Victor Nicolas de Faÿ de La Tour-Maubourg, National Portrait Gallery, London


  • Napoleon and the Grand Army in Russia, Or A Critical Examination of the Work of Count Ph. de Ségur, Gaspard Gourgaud


  • History of the Expedition to Russia, Undertaken by the Emperor Napoleon in the Year 1812, Philippe-Paul Ségur

  • Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850

  • www.almanachdegotha.org



Notes





  1. ^ www.rulers.org


  2. ^ Comtes de Coisse: www.chateaudecoisse.com


  3. ^ Henri La Fayette Villaume Ducoudray Holstein (1833). Le Glaneur Francais, Number One. Russell Robbins. pp. 246–250..mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"""""""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/65/Lock-green.svg/9px-Lock-green.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-gray-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .citation .cs1-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg/9px-Lock-red-alt-2.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration{color:#555}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription span,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration span{border-bottom:1px dotted;cursor:help}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg/12px-Wikisource-logo.svg.png")no-repeat;background-position:right .1em center}.mw-parser-output code.cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:inherit;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{font-size:100%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#33aa33;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-subscription,.mw-parser-output .cs1-registration,.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right,.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-wl-right{padding-right:0.2em}


  4. ^ "Dynasty de Faÿ, WebGeneologie". Archived from the original on 2 May 2008. Retrieved 5 January 2009.


  5. ^ Order of Battle, Battle of Heilsberg, 1807 (Lidzbark Warminski), napoleonistyka


  6. ^ Vincent J Esposito; John Robert Elting; Frederick A Praeger. A Military History and Atlas of the Napoleonic Wars. ISBN 0-404-16950-3.


  7. ^ Herbert R. Clinton (1878). The War in the Peninsula, and Wellington's Campaigns in France and Belgium: and Wellington's campaigns in France and Belgium. F. Warne & co. p. 170.


  8. ^ Marbot Vol. I, p.357


  9. ^ Mark Urban (2003). The Man Who Broke Napoleon's Codes. HarperCollins. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-06-093455-2.


  10. ^ Marbot, Vol. II, p.285


  11. ^ Lieut-Gen. Baron de Marbot, ed. & transl. by Arthur John Butler, The memoirs of Baron de Marbot, late lieutenant-general in the French army (London: Longmans, Green and Co., 1892), p. 356


  12. ^ Francis Loraine Petre (1912). Napoleons̓ Last Campaign in Germany, 1813. John Lane. p. 89.


  13. ^ Marbot, Vol. II, page 397


  14. ^ The anecdote is reported, with others relating to him, by Chateaubriand in Les Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe.


  15. ^ Larrey, D. J. Memoirs of Military Surgery and Campaigns of the French Armies, Classics of Surgery Library, 1985, reprint of Joseph Cushing, 1814


  16. ^ Fanny Burney, Charlotte Barrett, Austin Dobson, Diary & Letters of Madame d'Arblay (1778-1840), p. 160


  17. ^ Robert Stewart, Viscount Castlereagh & Charles Vane, Marquess of Londonderry (1853). Memoirs and Correspondence of Viscount Castlereagh and the Second Marquess of Londonderry. H. Colburn. p. 146.CS1 maint: Multiple names: authors list (link)


  18. ^ John Richard Hall (1912). England and the Orleans Monarchy. Smith, Elder & Co. p. 82.














Political offices
Preceded by
Laurent de Gouvion, marquis de Saint-Cyr
Minister of War
19 November 1819 – 14 December 1821
 Succeeded by
Claude-Victor Perrin, duc de Belluno












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