- Adrien, Count of Rougé
Adrien, Count de Rougé, (
July 2 ,1782 – 1861) was a French statesman, distinguished soldier, andPeer of France .Adrien was a son of
Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé and his wife Natalie Victurnienne. He served under the Comte d'Artois, later King Charles X, in the Army of the Princes, first as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, then in 1800 as a " _fr. chasseur noble" in the Mortemart regiment. He served then as an officer of the King's Mousquetaires in 1814.From 1815 to 1823, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the _fr. "Departement" of theSomme . In 1816, Charles X appointed him to the Peerage with the title of Comte. For a time he commanded one of the four subdivisions of the army stationed inParis . He became the leader of the Knights of the Faith, a very powerful secret ultra conservative organisation. Like his older brother,Alexis Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé (head of the entire House ofRougé , Rougé duPlessis-Bellière et de Fay), he refused his allegiance to the government of King Louis Philippe.By his wife, Caroline de Forbin d'Oppède, he had four children, and from him descends a younger branch of the Rougé dynasty.
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