Commode Louis XVI With Coat Of Arms Of The Marquis De Louis De Fontanes. Peer Of France

Louis XVI style chest of drawers, opening on the front with two drawers without tarverse, inlaid on all sides with Aleppo breccia marble top. The inlaid coat of arms is that of the Arms of the Marquis Louis de Fontanes. Pair of France. This chest of drawers is a post-mortem order dating from the end of the 19th century, most certainly from a large Parisian workshop in the Faubourg Saint-Antoine, probably dating to the end of the existence of his daughter Christine de Fontanes who died in 1873, without descent. The family retains the mantle until the total extinction of any lineage. Parents. Father. Marcellin de Fontanes, inspector of the factories of Niort, from a Protestant family of former Cévenole nobility, but dispossessed of his fief by the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. Mother. Jeanne de Sède, widow of a first union having had three daughters, demanded that the two boys born of her second union with Marcellin de Fontanes, Dominique born in 1751 and Louis Born in 1757, be baptized in the Roman religion, because she was a devout Catholic. Louis de Fontanes receives a very strict education provided by a priest of Jansenist spirituality at La Foye-Monjault. This religious education in doctrine and punishment that presides over this Jansenist pedagogy makes the child suffer cruelly, to such an extent that he flees his prison prison of youth by seeking to engage as a ship's boy in the port of La Rochelle. His parents prevent him in extremis and suddenly he continues his education within the college of the congregation of the oratory. he loses his whole family in a few years. His brother died prematurely in 1772, his father in 1774, then his mother in 1776. Close friends of the family took him in to take over from his father, but this direction did not interest him. he then went to Paris to devote himself fully to writing, which was his passion, thus publishing his first poems and his first productions in the Almanac of the Muses and the Mercure de France. Functions. Pair of France. 4 June 1814 – 17 March 1821. President of the Legislative Body. January 10, 1804 - January 24, 1810. Armchair 17 of the French Academy. September 27, 1795 - March 17, 1821 Louis Jean-Pierre, Marquis de Fontanes, born March 6, 1757 in Niort and died in Paris March 17, 1821. writer, poet, politician and action man, heir to the taste of Racine and Fénelon, a bon vivant and endowed with the manners of the gallantry of ancient France. He was Grand Master of the University of France and a member of the Conservative Senate. he was also a member of the Academy of Belles Letrres, Sciences and Arts of La Rochelle, then a member of the National Society of Antiquaries of France.