Victor de Fay de La Tour-Maubourg

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Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ
Marquis de La Tour-Maubourg
Claude Victor-Perrin, Duc de Belluno
Governor of the Les Invalides
In office
December 1821 – July 1830
Preceded byLouis-Antoine de Lignaud de Lussac
Succeeded byJean-Baptiste Jourdan
Personal details
Born(1768-05-22)22 May 1768
Divisional General
Battles/wars
See list:

Marie-Victor-Nicolas de Faÿ, Marquis de La Tour-Maubourg (22 May 1768 – 11 November 1850) was a French

Ancien Régime before rising to prominence during the First French Empire
.

Under the

Minister of War between 1819 and 1821.[1]

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

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

Campo-Formio
in 1797.

De Faÿ then became an

marquise de La Tour-Maubourg), who predeceased him on 17 July 1844.[4]

His elder brother,

Juste-Charles 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

Jacques-Francois Menou
.

Campaigns of 1805–1807

De Faÿ was present at the

Brigadier-General
.

He then served in the

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 cavalry of the

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

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

Marquis
in 1817.

De Faÿ served in several diplomatic posts, including appointment as

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

See also

External links

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.
  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. ISBN 978-0-404-16950-3
    .
  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. 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. 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.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  18. ^ John Richard Hall (1912). England and the Orleans Monarchy. Smith, Elder & Co. p. 82.
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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
Preceded by Governor of the Les Invalides
December 1821 – July 1830 		Succeeded by


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