Yves d'Alègre

Yves d'Alègre (1653 – 3 March 1733). He was the fifth head of the Alègre family, and marquis of Tourzel as well as seigneur of Montaigu, of Saint-Flour-le-Châtel, of Aurouze and of Aubusson and count of Flaugeac.

Life He was a son of Emmanuel, Marquis of Alègre and Marie de Raimond de Modène, daughter of the Grand Provost of France.

He fought in all Louis XIV's wars — the Franco-Dutch War, the Nine Years' War, the War of the Spanish Succession. He became Colonel of the Royal Dragoon Regiment from May 1679 to April 1693 and took part in the sieges of Limbourg, Condé, Valenciennes, Cambrai, Luxembourg and the Battles of Fleurus (1690) and Steenkerque (1692), where he was wounded in the arm by a musket shot. In March 1693 he was appointed Maréchal de camp and promoted Lieutenant-General in January 1702. Yves-Emmanuel (1685-1705) Count of Alègre and of Millau Marie-Thérèse (1680–1706) married (1696) Louis François Marie Le Tellier, marquis of Barbezieux, son of Michel marquis de Louvois Marie-Marguerite (1688-1752) married (1705) Philippe de Recourt, count of Rupelmonde (various factums published in 1727 refer to him as Joseph de Boulogne de Licques, count of Rupelmonde) Marie-Emmanuelle married (1713) Jean-Baptiste Desmarets, marquis of Maillebois, Marshal of France Emmanuel, died young Marguerite-Thérèse (b. 1700 & d. young)

After the death of Marquise Jeanne, his first wife, he married secondly Madeleine d'Ancezune on 21 August 1724.