Alexandre-Louis-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot

Alexandre Louis Auguste de Rohan-Chabot (3 December 1761 – 8 February 1816), Count of Chabot, then Prince of Leon, 7th Duke of Rohan, Count of Porhoët, was Colonel of the Régiment Royal of the County of Artois, Lieutenant-General of the King's Armies, First Gentleman of the Chamber of King Louis XVIII and hereditary Peer of France.

Early life Alexandre was born in Paris, France on 3 December 1761. He was the eldest son of Louis Antoine de Rohan-Chabot and his first wife, Élisabeth Louise de La Rochefoucauld (1740–1786). Among his siblings were Armand Charles de Rohan-Chabot, who was murdered during the French Revolution in September 1792, and Alexandrine Charlotte de Rohan-Chabot, who married their uncle, Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld. After his murder in September 1792, she married Boniface de Castellane, in 1810. After his mother's death in 1786, his father married Adélaïde Suzanne de Vismes, widow of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde and daughter of Pierre-Martin de Vismes and Marie-Louise Legendre, in 1798.

His paternal grandparents were Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Viscount of Bignan, and his first wife, Yvonne Sylvie du Breil de Rays. Today, his grandfather is most notable for his 1726 altercation with Voltaire. His maternal grandparents were Jean Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Anville, and Marie Louise Nicole de La Rochefoucauld, Lady of La Roche-Guyon.

In 1790, he followed the Count of Artois in exile and served as his aide-de-camp, before serving in the Army of Condé. At the end of 1794, he was in Jersey with the French émigrés. He returned to France in 1800. Arrested by the police of the consulate, he was released on the intervention of Joseph Fouché. Unlike his sons, he remained on the sidelines during the First Empire. His eldest son, Louis-François, served as chamberlain of the Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte from 1809 until the emperor's exile in 1814.

In March 1815, replacing the deceased Duke of Fleury he was made First Gentleman of the Chamber of King Louis XVIII, whom he followed to Ghent during the Hundred Days. Returning with the King to Paris, he was made a hereditary Peer of France by an ordinance of 19 August 1815.

Louis-François de Rohan-Chabot (1788–1833), who married Marie Georgine Armandine de Sérent, granddaughter of the Duke of Sérent, in 1808. After her death from a fire in 1815, he devoted himself to the church, later serving as Archbishop of Auch, Archbishop of Besançon and cardinal priest. Anne Louis Fernand de Rohan-Chabot (1789–1869), who married Josephine Françoise de Gontaut-Biron, daughter of Charles-Michel de Gontaut-Biron, Marquis de Saint Blancard, in 1817. Louise-Anne-Léopoldine-Cécilia-Léontine de Rohan-Chabot (1791–1795), who died young. Marie-Charlotte-Léontine de Rohan-Chabot (1796–1841), who married Antoine de Lambertye, Marquis of Gerbéviller, in 1817. who succeeded him as the 8th Duke of Rohan.