ANDINO de la Blanche

Andin de la Blanche, Louis-Marie-Auguste-Fortune (1765-1857) d'ANDIGNE DE LA BLANCHAYE, Louis-Marie-Auguste-Fortune - Count. He served in the Navy. After the Revolution, he emigrated. He was accepted into the army of the royalists in the rank of Major General. One of the main leaders of the uprising in the Vendee Chouans. After the coup of 18 Brumaire, participated in the negotiations with Napoleon, the cessation of civil war. And then Napoleon himself, who studied at the military school with his brother, he was entrusted with the mission to negotiate with the heir to the throne, the future Louis XVIII on his return to France. After the refusal of Bonaparte's ideas about the return of the Bourbons, was arrested and placed under house arrest in Grenoble, where, after several unsuccessful attempts, escaped to Germany. During the Hundred Days brought antibonapartistsky rebellion in the province of Anjou, for that after the second Restoration proclaimed a peer of France. The author's memoirs about his meetings with the First Consul.