| Antoine Marie Chamans, Comte De Lavalette |
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| 1769 births | |
| 1830 deaths | |
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Born the same year as Napoléon , he spent the revolution in the French army, where he rose through the ranks to become an ''aide-de-camp'' to General Louis Baraguey D'Hilliers . In 1796 , after the Battle Of The Bridge Of Arcole , Baraguey d'Hilliers introduced his aide-de-camp to the future emperor Napoléon Bonaparte , who was impressed enough to take him onto his personal staff and to entrust him with diplomatic missions. On 22 April 1798 , Lavalette was married to ''Émilie de Beauharnais'' ( 1781 - 1855 ), niece of Napoléon's wife Joséphine . Lavalette returned to France with Napoléon, participating in the coup of 18 Brumaire . He served a number of functions in the First Empire , most notably eleven years as Minister of Posts, during which he oversaw the covert monitoring of the mail of suspected counterrevolutionaries. Having rejected the opportunity to go into exile with his emperor, because he had a pregnant wife and a 13 year old daughter, he was arrested after the beginning of the Restauration . His wife had lost her pregnancy in October, and on 21 November 1815 Lavalette was sentenced to execution by the '' Ultras ''. One night before his scheduled execution, he was visited by his wife and daughter and managed to change clothes and places with his wife, a ruse that was not discovered until the next morning. Having escaped prison, Lavalette made his way to Great Britain with the assistance of a small group of British soldiers. He then made his way to Belgium , and finally to Bavaria , where he had the support of Eugène De Beauharnais of his wife's family and his father-in-law Maximilian I Of Bavaria . Madame Lavalette remained in prison until 23 January 1816 . Lavalette was eventually able to return to France and died in 1830 , most likely of Lung Cancer . EXTERNAL LINKS |
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