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Noailles (de), Louis Marc Antoine

Louis Marc Antoine de Noailles

Born

17 April 1756

Died

9 January 1804

A younger son of the maréchal de Mouchy and brother-in-law of La Fayette, Noailles served in the American war and was the French commissioner who negotiated the articles of capitulation at Yorktown in October 1781. Elected for the nobility of Nemours, he opened the session of the night of 4 August 1789 by proposing equality of taxation, the redemption of feudal dues and the abolition without indemnity of personal servitudes. He spoke again for the suppression of titles in June 1790 and fought a duel with Barnave arising from the debate, firing into the air. He left France with a passport in 1792 and settled at Philadelphia, returning to the Caribbean with the Saint-Domingue expedition of 1802. He died at Havana in January 1804 of wounds received at sea.

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