Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles


Louis-Marie, vicomte de Noailles was the second son of Philippe, duc de Mouchy, and a member of Mouchy branch of the famous Noailles family of the French aristocracy.

Career

He served under his brother-in-law the Marquis de Lafayette in America during the American War for Independence, and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781.
He was elected to the Estates-General in 1789. On 4 August 1789, during the French Revolution, he began the famous "orgy" when feudalism was to be abolished, and the Duc d'Aiguilion proposed the abolition of titles and liveries in June 1790.
As the French Revolution progressed and became more dangerous for nobles, he emigrated to the United States and became a partner in William Bingham's Bank of North America in Philadelphia. He was successful in the United States. He accepted a command against the English in San Domingo, under Rochambeau. He commanded a defence of the Môle-Saint-Nicolas and escaped with the garrison to Cuba, but en route there his ship was attacked by a British schooner. After a long engagement, he was severely wounded, and died of his wounds in Havana on 9 January 1804.

Personal life

He married his cousin Anne Jeanne Baptiste Georgette Adrienne Pauline Louise Catherine Dominique de Noailles, daughter of Jean Louis Paul François de Noailles, Duc de Noailles. They had four children:
Noailles died in Havana on 9 January 1804.

Descendants

Through his son Alfred, Viscount de Noailles, he was a grandfather of Anne Marie Cécile de Noailles, who married Charles Philippe Henri de Noailles.
Through his daughter Euphemia, he was a grandfather of Marthe Augustine de Saint-Georges de Vérac, who married Louis Marie Pantaleon Costa, Marquis de Beauregard in 1834.