Auguste de Schonen

De Schonen was reelected on 12 July 1830 and threw himself into the revolutionary cause. At the meeting of the protesters in the office of Le National he said it was no longer a question of debate but of action. He called for opposing violence with violence, repelling force by force.^[1] On 29 July 1830 the deputies who had remained in Paris met at Lafitte's house and named an interim Municipal Commission composed of Jacques Laffitte, Casimir Pierre Périer, Georges Mouton, Auguste de Schonen, Pierre-François Audry de Puyraveau and François Mauguin. General Lafayette was appointed commander of the National Guard.^[3] De Schonen and two other commissioners accompanied King Charles X of France to monitor his embarkation for England.^[1]

At this time de Schonen became a member of the municipal council of Paris and colonel of the 9th Legion of the National Guard. He was appointed liquidator of the former civil list, and was named by King Louis-Philippe to the position of Attorney General to the Court of Accounts. He was also made chairman of the supervisory board of the royal house at Charenton, a member of the Board of Directors of the Institution for the Young Blind and other posts. De Schonen was reelected on 5 July 1831 and 21 July 1834.^[1] He was appointed Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor on 2 June 1837.^[2]

De Schonen supported the conservative government policy both in the House of Representatives, where he was Vice President in 1832, 1833 and 1834, and in the Chamber of Peers, to which he was promoted on 3 October 1837, to the disgust of his former political friends. After the February Revolution of 1848 de Schonen returned to private life. He died in Paris on 4 December 1849.^[1]

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