Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency, Duc de Montmorency

Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency (14 December 1790 – 18 August 1862), 6th Duke of Montmorency, was a French aristocrat.

Early life

Montmorency was born on 14 December 1790. He was the son of Anne Charles François de Montmorency, 5th Duke of Montmorency (1768–1846), and Anne Louise Caroline de Goyon de Matignon, Countess de Gacé (1774–1846). His sisters were Anne Élisabeth Laurence de Montmorency (wife of Théodore, Prince of Bauffremont, son of Alexandre de Bauffremont) and Anne Louise Charlotte Alix de Montmorency (wife of Napoléon Louis, 3rd Duke of Talleyrand-Périgord, de jure 3rd Duke of Dino).

Career He served as aide-de-camp to Marshal Louis-Nicolas Davout as well as chamberlain to Emperor Napoleon in 1813. From 1815 to 1820, he was aide-de-camp to the Duke of Orléans (later King Louis Philippe I).

Personal life In 1821, he married Euphémie Théodore Valentine de Harchies de Vlamertinghe (1786–1858), the widow of his uncle, Thibaut de Montmorency, who died in a carriage accident at Montgeron in 1818.

The Duke died, without issue, on 18 August 1862. The dukedom passed to his nephew, Nicolas Raoul Adalbert de Talleyrand-Périgord, the youngest son of his sister Anne Louise Charlotte Alix de Montmorency. Her elder son, Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord, inherited the dukedom of Talleyrand.