Armand Jean d'Allonville

Armand Jean d'Allonville (13 July 1732, Dommartin-le-Saint-Père, Toul diocese, Champagne – 24 January 1811, London) was a French nobleman from an old family in Beauce. He was nicknamed le balafré ("Scarface") and served as maréchal des Camps et des armées du Roi, commander of the exiled Les Gentilshommes de la province de Champagne, then those of Brittany and the régiment d'Allonville.

Family He was a member of the Oysonville-Arnancourt branch of the Allonville family, named after their fiefdoms in Beauce, then in Champagne. He was one of the sons of Marquis Edmé d'Allonville (1694–1783) and the brother of Antoine Charles Augustin d'Allonville, who was killed defended the Tuileries Palace in the insurrection of 10 August 1792, and of Count Jean-Nicolas d’Allonville de Mellet, officers of the Chevaliers de la couronne, killed in the Army of Condé on 2 December 1793 at the Battle of Berstheim, the first émigré and Austrian victory over the French, while protecting the Louis Antoine, Duke of Enghien.

Life

1745–1791 During the War of the Austrian Succession, Armand entered the French army at the end of 1745 as a cornet in the régiment Lameth-Cavalerie. His first battle, aged 14, in 1746, at the Siege of Mons, under marshal Maurice de Saxe. a regiment created on 29 January of the same year. He rose to brigadier des armées du roi on 1 March 1780 and then maréchal de camp on 1 January 1784. In 1788 he was put in command of a large cavalry brigade, in the 2nd division of 'évêchés', commissioned by marquis André-Claude de Chamborant. With a daily pension of five shillings a day, after his troops were dismissed, d'Allonville lived in England in poverty. He is recorded in London on 12 April 1806 and died there on 24 January 1811. He was buried in St Pancras Churchyard.

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