Charles de Choiseul-Praslin

Charles de Choiseul, Duke of Praslin (Charles Laure Hugues Théobald; 29 June 1805 – 24 August 1847) was a French nobleman and politician, who served as a member of the Chamber of Deputies in 1838–1842. Choiseul-Praslin's suicide, occurring while he faced trial for the murder of his wife, the Duchess de Choiseul-Praslin (née Fanny Sébastiani), caused a scandal which in turn contributed to the outbreak of the 1848 Revolution and the fall of the July Monarchy.

Biography Born in Paris, he was the eldest son of Charles Raynart Laure Félix, duc de Choiseul, who had been a deputy and leader of the National Guard under the First French Empire, and his wife (née de Breteuil); the couple also had another son, Edgar Laure Charles Gilbert, and three daughters. and was later a chevalier d'honneur to Hélène, wife of Ferdinand Philippe, Duke of Orléans.

On 18 October 1824, Choiseul-Praslin married Fanny Altarice Rosalba, the daughter of Marshal Horace Sébastiani de La Porta and his first wife Fanny Franquetot de Coigny.

During searches in rooms adjacent to the duke's, police uncovered the blood-stained handle of a dagger (kept inside in a cabinet), According to this theory, the duke died in 1882 and was buried in Ciudad Darío. In 1938, Henry's great-niece Rachel Field published a novel based on the killing, All This and Heaven Too. The novel became a 1940 film of the same name starring Charles Boyer as the Duc, Barbara O'Neil as the Duchess, Montagu Love as Horace Sébastiani, and Bette Davis as Henriette Deluzy-Desportes.

The affair was also the basis for a historical novel by the English writer Marjorie Bowen called Forget-Me-Not, although the characters' names are changed. It also inspired a play by Shaun McKenna, titled Ruling Passions, which premiered at the Royal Theatre (Northampton) in 1995. In 2018, Nicaraguan novelist Gioconda Belli published Las fiebres de la memoria (2018), following the theory of Choiseul's life in Nicaragua.