Louis-Antoine de Rohan-Chabot

Louis-Antoine-Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, 6th Duke of Rohan (20 April 1733 – 29 November 1807), Prince, Count and Baron of Léon, Duke of Chabot, then 6th Duke of Rohan in 1791, was a French aristocrat and general officer.

Early life Rohan-Chabot was born on 20 April 1733. He was the son of Guy Auguste de Rohan-Chabot, Viscount of Bignan, Lieutenant General of the King's Armies , and, his first wife, Yvonne Sylvie du Breil de Rays (1712–1740). In 1726, his father became famous for an altercation with Voltaire. From his parents' marriage, he had an elder sister, Marie Sylvie Alias Charlotte de Rohan-Chabot (who married Jean Baptiste Louis de Clermont d'Amboise, Marquis de Reynel and Marquis de Montglas), and a younger brother, Charles Rosalie de Rohan-Chabot, Count of Jarnac (who married Guyonne Hyacinthe de Pons Saint Maurice and, after her death in 1761, Elisabeth Smith). After his mother's death in 1740, his father married Lady Mary Apolonia Scolastica Stafford-Howard (the daughter of William Stafford-Howard, 2nd Earl of Stafford, de jure 3rd Baron Stafford).

Career He began serving in the King's Armies at the age of fourteen. In 1748, he served in the Flanders campaigns as a cornet. In 1749, he became Colonel in the Grenadier Regiment and mestre de camp of the Royal Foreign Cavalry Regiment in 1756, which he commanded at the Battle of Hastembreke, the capture of Minden, Hanover (1757), the Battle of Krefeld (1758), Minden (1759), Kloster Kampen (1760), and the Battle of Warburg. He conducted himself admirably in the Seven Years' War, which earned him the nickname "the young hero" by Marshal Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Duke of Belle-Isle. In 1763, he was promoted to Brigadier of Cavalry, to Maréchal de camp in 1772, and to Lieutenant General in 1781. Alexandrine Charlotte de Rohan-Chabot (1763–1839), who married, as his second wife, her maternal uncle Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld (widower of Louise-Pauline de Gand de Mérode), in 1780. After he was executed in September 1792 during the September Massacres of the Reign of Terror, she married Boniface Louis André de Castellane, Marquis of Castellane, in 1810. Armand Charles Just de Rohan-Chabot (1767–1792), who was executed in September 1792 during the September Massacres; he died unmarried.

On 14 March 1798, he remarried to Adélaïde Suzanne de Vismes, widow of Jean-Benjamin de La Borde (guillotined in 1794), and daughter of Pierre-Martin de Vismes and Marie-Louise Legendre. He did not have any children with his second wife.

The Duke died in Paris on 29 November 1807 and was buried at the Château de La Roche-Guyon.