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Aiguillon (d’), Armand-Désiré

Armand-Désiré de Vignerot du Plessis-Richelieu, duc d’Aiguillon

Born

31 October 1761

Died

4 May 1800

A wealthy noble and deputy for the nobility of Agen, the duc d’Aiguillon joined the Third Estate and sat on the Constituent Assembly. During the Night of 4 August 1789, speaking after the vicomte de Noailles, he proposed equal taxation and the redemption of feudal and seigneurial dues. The decrees subsequently distinguished between personal servitudes, which were abolished without compensation, and other dues that initially remained redeemable. After serving as an army officer in 1792, d’Aiguillon was accused following the seizure of a letter in which he denounced the Legislative Assembly. He left France, lived in London and Hamburg, and died in Hamburg in 1800.

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