Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne

Arnouph Louis Joseph Deshayes de Cambronne (or Arnould or Arnoult) (born March 26, 1768 in Crépy-en-Valois, Oise – died in 1846) was a former governor of the Château de Compiègne and the major adjudant of the National Guard (France).

Biography

Christianed in the church of Saint-Denis en Crépy in 1768, he is the son of Joseph-Abraham Deshayes (1728, Guise-1795, Orrouy), director of insinuations of the Apanage of Louis Philippe I, Duke of Orléans, and Cécile-Louise-Marguerite Doyen (1738–1815). He marries Rosalie-Zélie de Hémant (1781-) on January 20, 1806, daughter of a master of the Cour des comptes.[1] He is the brother of Nicolas Alexandre Joseph Deshayes de Merville (1760–1816) married in 1788 to Bonne Victoire Randon (1767–1824) and of Claude-Jean Basile Deshayes des Eluats.

He participates in 1792 next to the baron Félix Le Peletier d'Aunay during the battle of Louis Joseph, Prince of Condé in the Company of the Count du Comte de Laurétan before to get to the Siege of Maastricht by the French revolutionnary army directed by Francisco de Miranda, under the orders of Jean Thérèse de Beaumont d'Autichamp.

He is a volunteer in the Hussards of Hompesch commander by the Beaurepaire de Louvagny family in 1794, directed by the English before its settlement in Hanover in 1795. He joins the commandment of Franz-Simon Pfaff von Pfaffenhofen, Tyrol who makes him an officer.

During the Bourbon Restoration, from February 15th, 1815 to 1826, he becomes adjudant of the Château de Compiègne by the ultraroyalists, Mathieu de Montmorency, minister of Foreign affairs (1821–1822) of the government of Joseph de Villèle and Durand Borel de Brétizel, with the agreement of the king, under the direction of the Count of Eugène François Léon de Béthune d'Hesdigneul and of Antoine Charles Louis de Lasalle.

In August 1822, he becomes colonel by the king Louis XVIII of France, and knight of the Order of Saint Louis before changing his name, Deshayes, in Deshayes de Cambronne, during the La Rochelle affair and the ennoblement of the general Pierre Cambronne, famous for his legendary word invented by Michel-Nicolas Balisson de Rougemont, quoted by Victor Hugo in The Miserables.[2]

He lives in the castle of Orrouy, on the domain of Champlieu, in the manoir of Donneval and of La Mothe in Béthisy-Saint-Martin.

He becomes than an Aide-de-camp to the king Charles X, before he dismissed the Garde Nationale, in 1927.

He is the great-grand-father of Claude de Cambronne and the great-great-grand father of Laurence de Cambronne.

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Notes

  1. ↑ Dictionnaire des familles françaises anciennes ou notables, sur gallica.bnf.fr
  2. ↑ "L’homme qui a gagné la bataille de Waterloo, ce n’est pas Napoléon en déroute, ce n’est pas Wellington pliant à quatre heures, désespéré à cinq, ce n’est pas Blücher qui ne s’est point battu ; l’homme qui a gagné la bataille de Waterloo, c’est Cambronne. Foudroyer d’un tel mot le tonnerre qui vous tue, c’est vaincre." The Miserables, Chapter 15
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