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Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (17 October 1739 – 30 December 1798) was a French general and writer. Due to his literary talent, he became a member of the Académie française in 1784. He was elected to the Estates-General of 1789.
Château de la Brède, Montesquieu's birthplace. Montesquieu was born at the Château de la Brède in southwest France, 25 kilometres (16 mi) south of Bordeaux. [4] His father, Jacques de Secondat (1654–1713), was a soldier with a long noble ancestry, including descent from Richard de la Pole, Yorkist claimant to the English crown.
The marquis Anne-Pierre de Montesquiou-Fézensac held an important role in the French Revolution as a member of Parliament, renouncing noble privileges and later voting the beheading of king Louis XVI. As a general, he conquered the region of Savoie, annexed to France.
Robert de Montesquiou was a scion of the French Montesquiou-Fézensac family.His paternal grandfather was Count Anatole de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1788–1878), aide-de-camp to Napoleon and grand officer of the Légion d'honneur; his father was Anatole's third son, Thierry, who married Pauline Duroux, an orphan, in 1841.
In 1907 she married Joseph Marquis de Montesquiou-Fezensac, [10] a member of the Montesquiou family who would go on to become Duc de Fezensac in 1913. [11] When Kokoschka arrived at the Swiss sanitarium to paint Bessie's portrait the Duchess and her husband were there undergoing treatment for tuberculosis. Kokoschka later recalled their meeting:
The French government created the Army of the Midi on 13 April 1792 [3] and ordered its commander General Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac to invade Savoy and Nice by 15 May 1792. Since, his army was not ready, Montesquiou could not obey his instructions, but the Sardinians were aware that the French were getting ready to attack.
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François-Xavier-Marc-Antoine de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1757–1832), deputy of the clergy of Paris; Anne-Pierre, marquis de Montesquiou-Fézensac (1739–1798) Mathieu Jean Félicité, duc de Montmorency-Laval (1766–1826), deputy of the nobility of the bailiwick of Montfort-l'Amaury. Médéric Louis Élie Moreau de Saint-Méry (1750–1803)