François-Jules de Contades

He served as "Major en second" of the Infantry Régiment de Bourbonnais. In 1791, during the French Revolution, he joined the Armée des Émigrés, a counter-revolutionary armies raised outside France by and out of royalist émigrés, with the aim of overthrowing the French Revolution, reconquering France and restoring the monarchy. He served in the campaigns of the Army of the Prince of Condé.^[4]

In November 1794, he was a Major in the regiment of British Uhlan Regiment, of which his brother-in-law, Louis de Bouillé, was Colonel. In 1795, he became Colonel of a Light Infantry regiment known as Talpaches de Rohan, raised by Cardinal Louis-René de Rohan (but owned by his nephew, Charles Alain, Prince of Guéméné) He later fought in the Régiment de Rohan in the service of Austria, reaching the rank of Major-General.^[4]

In 1803, he benefited from the amnesty concerning former emigrants, following article 12 of the Sénatus-consulte of 1802. He resided at his family's Château de Montgeoffroy, which had been the property of the Contades family since 1772.^[4]

On 9 March 1791, Contades was married, by contract, to Cécile Emilie Céleste Eléonore "Mérote" de Bouillé (1774–1801), a daughter of Marie Louise Guillemette de Bègue and François Claude Amour, marquis de Bouillé, one of King Louis XVI's generals who was a leading conspirator involved in the royal family's failed flight in 1791 (the failure of which forced Bouillé into exile).^[5] Together, they were the parents of:

• Constance de Contades (1792–1854), who married Jacques-Philippe Bernard de La Barre de Danne.^[4]
• Jules Gaspard Amour de Contades (1794–1861), a cavalry officer who married Gabrielle Adèle Alexandrine Amys du Ponceau.^[4]

Contades died on 3 September 1811 in Angers.^[4]