Flahault de la Billarderie, AUGUSTE CHARLES JOSEPH, COMTE DE, a French soldier and diplomatist, was born at Paris on 21st April 1785. Entering the army a mere lad, he was rapidly promoted to the rank of aide-de-camp of Napoleon. He distinguished himself in the Peninsular war and the Russian campaign, and in 1813 received the title of Count, and the rank of general of division in the new army. He became an exile after Waterloo; and while in England married a Scottish peeress, the Baroness Keith and Nairne, proprietor of Tulliallan, in Clackmannan- shire. After the revolution of 1830 Flahault returned to France, entered the household of the king, and was appointed ambassador at Vienna (1842-48). By Napoleon III. he was sent as ambassador to London (1860-62), and made Grand Chancellor of the Legion of Honour. He died 2d September 1870.
Flahault de la Billarderie, AUGUSTE CHARLES JOSEPH, COMTE DE
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