Louis, duc de La Chastre

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Claude-Louis-Raoul de La Châtre, otherwise known as Louis, duc de La Chastre (30 September 1745 – 13 July 1824) was an

His father, the marquis, was guillotined by the Revolutionaries in 1793 (when he succeeded to his father's titles), but La Chastre managed to escape to England where he raised the Régiment Loyal-Émigrant. Having commanded his troops with distinction throughout the Low Countries, Quiberon and Portugal, he returned to London in 1807.

He became the first French Ambassador to the Court of St James's under the Bourbon Restoration.

La Chastre was created a

He was married to Marie Charlotte Louise Perrette Aglaé Bontemps from 1778 until their divorce in 1793.^[2]

Honours and titles

• Duc de France
• Ordre de Saint-Louis
• Chevalier, Ordre de Malte
• Chevalier, Ordres Royaux, Militaires et Hospitaliers de Notre-Dame du Mont-Carmel et de Saint-Lazare de Jérusalem Réunis
• Chevalier, Ordre du Saint-Esprit
• Légion d'honneur

See also

• List of Ambassadors of France to the United Kingdom
• Maison de La Châtre (in French)

References