Louis Marie de Noailles (17 April 1756 – 7 January 1804) was aFrench Army officer and politician who served in theAmerican Revolutionary War andFrench Revolutionary Wars. The second son ofPhilippe, duc de Mouchy, he was a member ofMouchy branch of theNoailles family ofFrench nobility.[1]
De Noailles was born in Paris. He served under his brother-in-law theMarquis de Lafayette in America during theAmerican War for Independence and was the officer who concluded thecapitulation of Yorktown in 1781.[1]
He was elected to theEstates-General in 1789. On 4 August 1789, during theFrench Revolution, he began the famous "orgy" (asHonoré-Gabriel Mirabeau called it) whenfeudalism was to be abolished, and theDuc d'Aiguilion proposed the abolition oftitles andliveries in June 1790.[1]
As the French Revolution progressed and became more dangerous for nobles, he emigrated to theUnited States and became a partner inWilliam Bingham'sBank of North America inPhiladelphia. He was successful in the United States.
He accepted a command inSaint-Domingue underDonatien-Marie-Joseph de Vimeur, vicomte de Rochambeau, fighting against Black rebels. He commanded a defence of theMôle-Saint-Nicolas and set sail with the town garrison for Cuba in 1803 buten route there his ship was attacked by a British schooner. After a long engagement, he was severely wounded, and died of his wounds inHavana on 9 January 1804.[1] De Noailles was a member of theSociety of the Cincinnati from France.
He married his cousin Anne Jeanne Baptiste de Noailles (1758–1794), daughter ofJean Louis Paul François de Noailles, Duke of Noailles. They had four children:[2]
Through his son Alfred, Viscount de Noailles, he was grandfather of Anne Marie Cécile de Noailles (1812–1848), who marriedCharles Philippe Henri de Noailles.[2] Through his daughter Euphemia, he was grandfather of Marthe Augustine de Saint-Georges de Vérac, who marriedLouis Marie Pantaleon Costa, Marquis de Beauregard (1806–1864) in 1834.[3]
One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in thepublic domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Noailles s.v. Louis Marie".Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 19 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 723.
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