Auguste, comte de La Ferronays

Born in Saint-Malo, he participated in the campaign of the army of Émigrés in 1792, then emigrated to England where he joined the Duke du Berry.^{[citation needed]}

At the Bourbon Restoration, he was appointed brigadier, and peer of France in 1815.^{[citation needed]}

He was Ambassador in Denmark (1817-1819) and Russia (1820-1827), before becoming foreign minister in the Martignac ministry in 1828, for a short tome. During these years he maintained a friendly correspondence with Chateaubriand, that he briefly mentions in his memoirs.^{[citation needed]}

He had children:

• Charles, General Counsel of the Oise, the then deputy mayor of Gers and Boury-en-Vexin for 12 years, who married the Countess of Lagrange;
• Pauline (1808–1891), by her marriage Mrs. Augustus Craven, novelist;
• Eugenie, by marriage Countess Adrien de Mun, mother of the speaker Albert de Mun.

He bought the castle Boury-en-Vexin, in 1835.^{[citation needed]}

He was appointed a knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit in 1825 and died on 17 January 1842.^[1]