Table des matières
Rémy Coudroy de Lauréal (1773-1839)
- Maire de Limours-en-Hurepoix
Famille
- Nicolas-David-Henry Coudroy de Lauréal, aliasRémy-David Coudroy de Lauréal, né le 23 octobre 1773 au Moule (Guadeloupe), était le fils de Marie-Magdelaine Bruny de Châteaubrun (1742-1799) et de Nicolas-Léon Coudroy de Lauréal (v.1738-1789), commandant des milices de Sainte Anne en 1779, né et mort en Guadeloupe, mariés ensemble le 5 mai 1761 à Sainte-Anne (Guadeloupe).
- Il avait pour frères et sœurs:
- Léon-Charles Coudroy de Lauréal (1762-1792)
- Rémi-Adélaïde-Victoire Coudroy de Lauréal (1767-1785)
- Jean-Baptiste-Nicolas Coudroy de Lauréal (1768-1834)
- Marie-Anne-Antoinette Coudroy de Lauréal (1770-?)
- Marie-Magdeleine Coudroy de Lauréal (1777-1780)
- Marie-Théodore Coudroy de Lauréal (1778-1780)
- Marie-Madeleine-Théodore Coudroy de Lauréal (1780-1836)
- Charles-Évremont Coudroy de Lauréal (1783-1852)
- Jules-Marie-René Coudroy de Lauréal (1785-1828)
- Il se maria le 9 novembre 1801 à Trinidad et Tobaggo avec avec Louise-Anne-Nancy (Nanci) de Maury de Lapeyrouse (1787-1848)
- De cette union naquirent:
- Jean-Baptiste Coudroy de Lauréal (1804-?), officier, propriétaire à la Guadeloupe
- Anne-Françoise-Adélaïde Coudroy de Lauréal (1806-1856), née le 13 septembre 1806 à Newport (Rhode-Island, États-Unis d'Amérique), mariée le 31 janvier 1826 à Limours avec Claude-Adolphe Montanier de Belmont (1799-1861) et morte à Versailles le 28 août 1856.
- Marie Madeleine Octavie Coudroy de Lauréal (1809-1904), née le 8 juillet 1809 à Newport (Rhode Island, États-Unis d'Amérique), mariée le 12 octobre 1829 à Limours avec Édouard Coudroy de Lauréal (1808-?), morte le 21 janvier 1904 à Saint-Louis du Missouri (Louisiane, États-Unis d'Amérique).
- Rémy-Jules-Léon Coudroy de Lauréal (1821-1821), né et mort à Limours les 30 septembre et 19 octobre 1821.
- Louise-Marie-Madeleine-Léontine Coudroy de Lauréal (1831-?), née le 9 août 1831 à Limours.
- Il mourut à Limours le 8 novembre 1839 âgé de 66 ans.
Carrière
- Cadet de la Marine Royale
- Maire de Limours-en-Hurepoix
Distinction
- Chevalier de Saint-Louis
Documents
- Naissance en Guadeloupe en 1773 — AD971 1Mi/13/6.
- Apparemment non accessible sur internet en 2024.
- Naissance et décès d'un fils à Limours-en-Hurepoix en 1821 — AD91 4E/1774.
- Mariage de ses deux fills à Limours en 1826 et 1829 — AD91 4E/1775.
- Scan lacunaire du registre d'état civil de 1824 à 1830 (seule l'année 1824 est accessible sur le site des AD91 en 2024).
- Décès à Limours-en-Hurepoix en 1839 — AD91 4E/1777.
Archives
Bibliographie
- Louis Garesché, "Family od De Coudroy de Lauréal — Mariquitta's parents — herself", in Biography of Lieut. Col. Julius P. Garesché, assistant adudant-general, U. S. Army, by his son, printed for private circulation only, Philadelphia, J.-B. Lippincott, 1887, pp. 79-84.
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- CHAPTER VI. Family of De Coudroy de Laureal — Mariquitta's parents — herself.
- The family of De Coudroy de Laureal, an old Catholic one, though living in the Island of Guadeloupe, West Indies, since the latter part of the Seventeenth Century, belonged to a very ancient and noble race from Aix in Provence, France.
- The first of the name who appears as living in Guadeloupe, and the progenitor of that branch of the family, was Armand de Coudroy, who came into that colony about 1690 with his wife, noble like himself and formerly a Demoiselle de Lamotte. The family continued always to hold a distinguished position among the nobles of this Island, which, like other French colonies, contained cadets as well as elder sons of the old noblesse of France. Many of the members of the family, as also their connections, were conspicuous in the annals of French history for their courage, daring and wisdom as military and naval commanders, as also for their statesmanship as magistrates and piety as Religious, and lastly for great and even remarkable beauty of face and figure. Catholic and royalist in their sentiments, when the French Revolution broke out they espoused the cause of the Bourbons and suffered for their loyalty.
- Of Armand's two sons, Armand, the elder, died young and without ever marrying. Jean Charles de Coudroy, the younger, was Knight of the royal and military order of Saint Louis, and Lieut. Colonel Commandant of the Quartier du Moule, Guadeloupe. He married in 1732 Demoiselle Dorothée Victoire Boyvin, also of an old and noble race, located for a long time in the Colony. Of his five children by this marriage the eldest, Marie Victoire de Coudroy, was married in 1754 to Jean Baptiste Papin-Dupont, descended from a noble family of Brittany. Their grandson, Léon Papin-Dupont, who died at Tours, France, March 18, 1876, aged 79 years, was surnamed, in consequence of his great piety and sanctity of life, “The Holy Man of Tours.”
- Going back to the children of Nicolas Leon de Coudroy de Laureal and Marie Madeleine de Bruny de Chateaubrun I shall take up and speak of the sixth in age, Charles Evremond de Coudroy de Laureal, born at Moule, Guadeloupe, in 1783. He was not sent to France to be educated like his brothers, on account of the Revolution. He fled with his mother to the Antigues on the occasion of the uprising of the negroes in Guadeloupe: and entered, at the age of fifteen, the regiment of which his brother David was Major and served with it for many years. Upon his return to Guadeloupe he married in 1805 Demoiselle Marie Charlotte de Rochebrune, belonging to an ancient and noble family of the Limousin, France. He was appointed by the Governor of Guadeloupe Commandant of the Quartier du Moule, and afterwards Mayor of the Quartier, when in 1830 it was transformed into a Commune. The political events of 1848 decided him to repair with his family to the United States, where he died at Limours, in the parish of Carondelet, Mo., on the 18th of February 1852. He had six children: Edward, Mary, Celia, Angele, Alexis, and Amelia. |80|
- The third child and second son, Nicolas L§on de Coudroy was given on the death of his father the surname of “De Lauréal” and was thus called Nicolas Leon de Coudroy de Lauréal. He married in 1761 Demoiselle Marie Madeleine de Bruny de Chdteaubrun, of an ancient and noble family, originally from the South of France.
- Note — She was a woman possessed of most exquisite beauty and, too, of such a rare type and perfection, not only of face but also of figure, as to command universal homage, and was regarded as one of the greatest beauties of her day.
- Her father, Bruny de Chateaubrun, was an Italian nobleman who came to reside in Provence, France, where he purchased of the family of Mirabeau, the dominion and castle of La Tour de l'Aigle. About the year 1700 he went over to Guadeloupe and there espoused Demoiselle Marie Lecointe.
- Her younger sister married the Sieur de Villiers, the oldest of three brothers, the youngest of whom married Demoiselle de Varicourt, whose brother, called “Le Beau Varicourt,” was massacred at the palace of Versailles in 1789, while defending the door of Marie Antoinettes room against the assassins come to strangle her. His head was carried by these ruffians to a hair-dresser of St. Cloud, who was compelled by them to curl and powder the hair, after which it was borne on the end of a lance by the ruffianly escort to the Koyal family alongside the very windows of the carriage that bore them as prisoners to the Tuilleries.
- One of the ladies of the Varicourt family, the Marchioness de Villette, was several times mentioned in Yoltaire's verses under the title of “La Belle et Bonne.”
- She was first cousin to the Bailly de Suffren, a celebrated French Admiral, who, when quite young, joined the order of the Knights of Malta and afterwards engaged in the French Navy, where he distinguished himself by his courage and superior ability. Their children were eight in number. Her husband held the eminent position of Commandant of the Militia of St. Anne; of St. Francis; and of the Moule. She died during the emigration to St. Christopher in 1799, and he at St. Anne, Guadeloupe, in 1787. They were common grandparents to Mariquitta's parents, who were thus first cousins, their fathers being sons of this couple. Of these eight children, I shall only make mention of two, as they are so intimately connected with Mariquitta's own immediate family, being respectively the fathers of her own parents.
- Nicolas David Remy de Coudroy de Lauréal, the fifth child, was born at Moule, Guadeloupe, on the 23rd of December 1773. |81|
- When quite young he was sent to France to be educated, and received his course of instruction at the College of Pont-levoy, after which he entered as a cadet into the royal navy serving under his relative, the Admiral de La Jaille. When the Revolution broke out, though still very young, following the example of his elder brothers, Léon and Jean Baptiste, he entered the Army of the Princes, serving with it until its dissolution when he went over to England and pursued the same fortune as his brother, Jean Baptiste, and like him received the commission of Major in one of the newly created regiments of negroes in the English Antilles. When by the peace of Amiens these regiments or troops were disbanded, he remained at Trinidad, his last military stopping place, and there married in 1800 Demoiselle Nancy de la Peyrouse, niece of the celebrated French navigator, Count Jean Francis Galoup de la Peyrouse, of an ancient family of Provence.
- Note — Jean Francis Galoup de la Peyrouse, born of a noble family at Albi, France, in 1741, died in 1788. Entering the Naval service at an early age he served under Count d'Estaing in the American War of Independence and commanded the ship “l'Amazone” at the siege of Savannah, Ga.
- In 1818 he went over to France and there bouorht the beautiful estate and castle of Limours near Paris. He was for many years the Mayor of the Commune of Limours, but in 1830 handed in his resignation, not caring to hold office under any other but his legitimate King. He died at his property of Limours at the age of 66 and his body rests in the cemetery of that parish, surrounded by the loving remains of his wife and four of his daughters. Of his eight children, Léon and David died at an early age; Addle married in France in 1825 Adolphe de Belmont, of an old and noble family ; Marie Madeleine Octavie, born in the United States, in the State of Rhode Island, in 1809, during a hunting visit of her father, was married to her first cousin, Edward de Coudroy de Laur^al : Louis, born at Trinidad in 1812, was educated at the military school of St. Cyr and served for many years with his regiment, the First Zouaves, with great distinction in Algeria, under General Bourbaki. He was wounded at the capture of Abd-El-Kader's Smalah and afterwards distinguished himself at the storming of Laghouat, and with just enough strength left from a cureless attack of cholera |82| dragged hiaiself as far as the Crimea where he fell mortally wounded at the battle of the Alma, while most gallantly leading on his men to the assault of the Telegraph tower. The cross of honor, which he had richly merited at Laghouat — for he and his Zouaves, with General Yusuf, are said to have been, really, the first who penetrated into the town, — together with the announcement of his promotion to be Major, were soon on their way from France to him; — but long before they could reach the Crimea, he was dead. A headstone was placed in the cemetery of Limours near his parents and sisters bearing the date of his death, the 17th of September 1854. Antoinette and Celeste entered the Convent of St. Clotilde in Paris as Religious, and after a holy and devout life lie interred in the family burying ground at Limours, where also reposes their youngest sister, Léontine.
- Edward, the eldest, born in Guadeloupe in 1808, was educated in France, after which he studied law and was admitted to practice, but never made use of his profession. He was married on the 12th of October, 1829, to his beautiful first cousin, Marie Madeleine Octavie de Coudroy de Laureal, at her father's castle |83| of Limours near Paris. From this marriage there sprung seven children, viz: Mariquitta, Nancy, Madeleine, Octavie, Marie, Adele and Joseph. The year following he returned with his young wife to Guadeloupe and established a commercial house with his first cousin, Jean Baptiste de Coudroy de Laureal. The partnership continued for four years, after which Edward continued the business alone until 1848, when owing to financial reverses and the troubles then taking place in France he settled his affairs and with but scanty means came over to the United States and settled at first in St. Louis, Mo., and afterwards on a small property, which he bought in the vicinity, some ten miles south from St. Louis and four from Carondelet, Mo., and which, in respect to his wife, he called “Limours”, after her father's castle. Though formerly in affluent circumstances and owning a handsome plantation in Guadeloupe, his family had by various mishaps and the unexpected disasters of 1848 lost the greater part of their possessions, so that when he came to the United States he had comparatively but little fortune.
- A man of fine intellect, he possessed in addition to other accomplishments great talent as an artist, and several of his paintings ornament the walls of the little Catholic church in Carondelet, Mo., his present home for many years. Aristocratic by birth and lineage, he and his wife possessed all the polish and courtesy of the old French school and inherited the great and wonderful beauty of their grandmother, Marie Madeleine de Bruny de Chateaubrun, which legacy they in part transmitted to Mariquitta and several of her sisters. Pious and exemplary Catholics themselves, they endeavored to rear their children also in the fear and love of God, and spared no pains in giving them a finished and complete education.
- Note — Of their children, Nancy, born in Guadeloupe, in 1832, was married in 1852 in St. Louis to Robert A. Balcewell, Esq. : Madeleine, born at the castle of Limours, France, in 1835, was married to Dr. N. L. Hornsby of Carondelet, Mo., and died in 1873 leaving a large family of children: Octavie, born in Guadeloupe in 1837, married Mr. Rodolphe Desbonnes of St. Louis in 1865 and died two years subsequently, leaving an only child: Marie, born at Versailles, France, in 1842, was married to Jno. F. Slevin, Esq., of St. Louis, in 1861, and died in 1873, leaving live children: Adele, born at |84| Guadeloupe in 1844, married in 1875 her brother-in-law, Dr, N. L. Hornsby: Joseph died when a baby.
- |84| Mariquitta, (Marie Louise Charlotte) their eldest child, was born at Guadeloupe, July 6, 1830, on the De Laureal plantation, belonging to her paternal grandfather. She made two voyages with her Parents to France; and on the occasion of her second voyage made her First Communion at the Convent of St. Clotilde in Paris, where two of her mother's sisters, Antoinette and Celeste, were at the time Religious.
- Good, modest and pious as a child, Mariquitta retained these characteristics throughout her whole life. An excellent daughter, she became a devoted wife and mother. Carefully educated and possessed of a fine mind, she was proficient in all her studies. Her manners were as winning and agreeable as her face was sweet and beautiful. A charming and brilliant conversationalist, she was always the centre of an admiring circle.
- Étienne Broglin, “de Lauréal [Coudroy] Édouard”, Les "Petits Messieurs" pensionnaires de l'Académie royale de Juilly (1651-1828) (fichiers pdf mis en ligne par l'auteur sur le site Généanet), 2017, en ligne en 2024, pp. 1932-1934.
- Extrait
- de Lauréal [Coudroy] Édouard. Entré le 31 octobre 1820 en 6ème, âgé de 12 ans et demi, sorti le 19 août 1824 en fin de 3ème. De la Guadeloupe où il est né. Même adresse que Van Schalkwick infra. La famille de Coudroy de Lauréal est une famille ancienne de la Guadeloupe; elle descend de Jean-Charles Coudroy commandant les milices du Moule à la Grande-Terre qui obtint en janvier 1773 des letttres de noblesse et était chevalier de Saint-Louis quand il fit enregistrer ses titres de noblesse au Conseil supérieur de la Guadeloupe le 5 janvier 1778. Fils de Jean Coudroy, baptisé le 4 janvier 1673 à Clermont, diocèse de Dax (Landes), décédé en 1733, fermier des domaines du Roi en Guadeloupe, qui épousa en 1701 Marie-Dieudonnée Botte, née en 1681, Vieux-Habitants 971, décédée le 2 août 1747 à Sainte-Anne de la Guadeloupe, Jean-Charles Coudroy de Lauréal est né à Sainte-Anne le 12 mai 1705. Créateur de l'habitation Lauréal au Moule, commandant des milices du Moule, lieutenant-colonel, chevalier de Saint-Louis, il est décédé à Sainte-Anne le 12 octobre 1784. Il avait épousé au Gosier le 4 août 1732 Marie-Victoire Dorothée Boyvin, née au Gosier le 15 (alias 25) avril 1712, décédée au Moule dans la nuit du 11 au 12 février (alias 19 septembre) 1752, fille de feu Théodore Boyvin, officier de milice, né en l'île Saint-Christophe en 1672, |1933| décédé au Gosier le 23 mai 1716, et de Marie-Nicole Fillassier, née le 24 juin 1684, décédée le 23 février 1717. D'où Nicolas Léon Coudroy de Lauréal.
- Nicolas Léon Coudroy de Lauréal, écuyer, né au Moule le 1er mars 1738, décédé à Sainte-Anne le 23 février 1789, fut lieutenant de dragons, aide-major, puis capitaine commandant des milices de Sainte-Anne. Il épousa le 5 mai 1761 à Sainte-Anne Marie-Madeleine de Bruny de Chateaubrun, née à Sainte-Anne le 22 juin 1742 et décédée en l'île Saint-Christophe en 1799, fille de feu messire David Marseille de Bruny de Chateaubrun, écuyer, et de Marie-Catherine Le Cointre. D'où Charles Evremont Coudroy de Lauréal, né à Sainte-Anne le 11 octobre 1783 et baptisé le 11 avril 1784. Il se fit négociant, et épousa vers 1805 Marie-Louise Françoise Charlotte Guillaume de Rochebrune, fille de Joseph Guillaume de Rochebrune, et de Marie-Louise Charlotte Françoise Houé. Charles Évremont Coudroy de Lauréal mourut à Carondelet, Missouri, États-Unis, le 18 février 1852.
- Fils de Charles Évremond, Édouard Coudroy de Lauréal est né au Moule le 13 janvier 1808. À Limours, le 12 octobre 1829, M. Édouard Coudroy de Lauréal, rentier, demeurant à Paris, rue d'Artois, n°5, et auparavant rue de l'Odéon, n°31 bis, né en la paroisse du Moule, île de Grande-Terre, Guadeloupe, le 13 janvier 1808, fils de Charles Évremond Coudroy de Lauréal, propriétaire, et de dame Marie-Françoise Louise Charlotte Guillaume de Rochebrune, demeurant à la Guadeloupe, quartier du Moule, épouse sa cousine germaine, demoiselle Marie-Madeleine Coudroy de Lauréal, demeurant avec ses père et mère, née à Newport, État du Rhode Island, États-Unis d'Amérique, le 8 juillet 1809, fille de M. David Coudroy de Lauréal, chevalier de Saint-Louis, propriétaire, et de dame Anne Louise de La Peyrouse, demeurant en cette ville de Limours, en présence de messieurs Jules Louis Charles Bruny de Chateaubrun, 42 ans, propriétaire demeurant à Paris, rue Dauphine, Jean-Baptiste de Lauréal, 25 ans, sous-lieutenant au 47ème de ligne, demeurant à Paris, rue Neuve-Saint-Augustin, n°43, tous deux cousins germains de l'époux, Charles Nicolas Le Mercier Pomberay, propriétaire, 24 ans, demeurant à Paris, rue Saint-Dominique, n°36, et Charles Constant Emmanuel de Wavrechin, 23 ans, propriétaire, demeurant à Paris, rue neuve du Luxembourg, n°28. Édouard Coudroy de Lauréal vécut sur la propriété familiale à Limours, où est née sa fille Marie-Joséphine Madeleine Coudroy de Lauréal, le 3 mai 1835, fille de M. Édouard Coudroy de Lauréal, propriétaire, 27 ans, et de dame Marie-Madeleine Coudroy de Lauréal, 25 ans. Puis le couple alla s'établir en Guadeloupe où Édouard vécut comme habitant sucrier. Le 24 juin 1848 il partit pour la Louisiane, puis s'installera à Carondelet près de Saint-Louis du Missouri. Cultivateur, il fut aussi portraitiste, paysagiste, pastelliste amateur, mais non dénué de talent. Son épouse est décédée à Saint-Louis du Missouri le 21 janvier 1904.
- Oncle et beau-père d'Édouard Coudroy de Lauréal, Nicolas David Henri (alias Rémy) de Coudroy de Lauréal, né au Moule le 23 octobre 1773, est décédé à Limours (Essonne) dont il fut maire. Il avait épousé vers 1800 Louise Anne (dite Nancy) de La Peyrouse. Il séjourna à Newport (Rhode Island, États-Unis d'Amérique) où naquirent au moins deux de ses filles, Marie-Madeleine comme vu supra, et Anne Françoise Adélaïde. Demoiselle Anne Françoise Adélaïde de Lauréal, 19 ans, née à Newport, État de Rhode Island, en Amérique septentrionale le 13 septembre 1806, demeurant chez ses parents, fille de M. David Coudroy de Lauréal, chevalier de Saint-Louis, maire de cette ville, et de dame Anne-Louise Lapeyrouse, épouse à Limours le 31 janvier 1826 M. Claude Adolphe Montanier de Belmont, propriétaire, 26 ans, né à Lissy, Seine-et-Marne, le 14 août 1799 (27 thermidor an VII), déclaré le lendemain (État civil de Lissy), demeurant à Paris, rue Saint-Joseph, fils de M. Antoine Montanier de Belmont, ancien capitaine d'infanterie, demeurant à Paris, rue des Grès, n°10, et de feue dame Élisabeth Madeleine Pageaut, en présence d'Edme Jean Blaque, 72 ans, avocat à la Cour royale, demeurant à Paris, rue de Saintonge, ami de l'époux, de Jean Bernard Pageaut de Lissy, 68 ans, contrôleur général honoraire des finances de monseigneur le comte d'Artois, aujourd'hui Charles X, ancien président de l'ordre des avocats aux |1934| Conseils du Roi et en la Cour de cassation, demeurant à Paris, 13, rue de Saintonge, oncle de l'époux, de Jules Louis Charles Bruny de Chateaubrun, 38 ans, sous-chef au ministère des finances, demeurant à Paris, 20, rue Dauphine, cousin de l'épouse, et d'Évremond Coudroy de Lauréal, 42 ans, propriétaire, demeurant à Paris, rue des Vieux-Augustins, n°21. Nicolas David Coudroy et Anne Louise de La Peyrouse eurent encore des enfants à Limours : Rémi Jules Léon Coudroy de Lauréal né à Limours le 30 septembre 1821, déclaré le lendemain, décédé le 19 octobre suivant, fils de Rémi Nicolas David Coudroy de Lauréal, propriétaire, et de madame Anne Louise de La Peyrouse, et Louise Marie Madeleine Léontine, née le 9 août 1831, fille de M. Rémy David Coudroy de Lauréal, propriétaire, chevalier de Saint-Louis, 58 ans, et de dame Anne Louise de La Peyrouse, 44 ans. À Limours le 8 novembre 1839 est déclaré le décès de David Henri Coudroy de Lauréal, chevalier de Saint-Louis, ancien officier de marine, 67 ans, époux de dame Louise Anne de La Peyrouse, fils de Léon Coudroy de Lauréal et de dame Marie-Madeleine Brunie (sic) de Chateaubrun, les témoins étant son fils Jean-Baptiste Coudroy de Lauréal, 35 ans, propriétaire à la Guadeloupe, canton du Moule, et Léon de Wavrechin, son neveu, ecclésiastique, 35 ans.
- Cf. un frère en 1821. (Banquets de Juilly de 1876 p. 18 et de 187; Chaix d'Est-Ange; Nouveau d'Hozier; David Karel, Dictionnaire des artistes de langue française en Amérique du Nord, Maison du Québec et Presses de l'Université Laval, 1992; G. H. C., bulletin 93, mai 1997, p. 1984; R. P. de Clermont, Landes; État Civil de Limours, Essonne).
Dictyographie
- Anonyme (“chrismalouine”), "David Henry Rémy Coudroy de Lauréal", Généanet, en ligne en 2024.
- Gaetan Ganzini, "David Henry Rémy Coudroy de Lauréal", Généanet, en ligne en 2024.
- Pierre-Jean Bellavoine, "David Henry Rémy Coudroy de Lauréal", Généanet, en ligne en 2024.