François-Jules-Gaspard de Contades

François-Jules-Gaspard de Contades, Vicomte de Contades (29 December 1760 – 3 September 1811) was a French aristocrat and soldier who was known as the Chevalier de Contades.

Early life Contades was born on 29 December 1760 in Angers, the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department. He was the youngest son of Julie Victoire Constantin de La Lorie, Dame du Plantis (1739–1828) and Georges-Gaspard de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1726–1794), a member of the Académie des sciences. Among his siblings were Erasmus-Gaspard de Contades and Louis Gabriel de Contades.

His paternal grandfather was Louis Georges Érasme de Contades, Marquis de Contades, a prominent battlefield commander during the Seven Years' War who was made a Marshal of France.

Career He served as "Major en second" of the Infantry Régiment de Bourbonnais. In 1791, during the French Revolution, he joined the Armée des Émigrés, a counter-revolutionary armies raised outside France by and out of royalist émigrés, with the aim of overthrowing the French Revolution, reconquering France and restoring the monarchy. He served in the campaigns of the Army of the Prince of Condé. Together, they were the parents of:

Constance de Contades (1792–1854), who married Jacques-Philippe Bernard de La Barre de Danne. Jules Gaspard Amour de Contades (1794–1861), a cavalry officer who married Gabrielle Adèle Alexandrine Amys du Ponceau.

Contades died on 3 September 1811 in Angers.