Olivier de Saint-Georges de Vérac
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Armand-Maximilien-François-Joseph-Olivier de Saint-Georges, viscount[1] and marquis of Vérac, was French soldier and politician of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was born on August 1, 1768, in Paris and died on August 13, 1858, in his château in Temblay-sur-Mauldre.
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The fourth son of the Marquis of Vérac, Olivier de Saint-Georges was born in Paris on August 1, 1768.
As heir of the Saint-George family, he began preparing for his role in the family by becoming one of the king's bodyguards at the age of fifteen. In 1786, he became second lieutenant in the royal carabineers and graduated to the role of captain in 1788. His career was halted by the French Revolution.
Emigration
He traveled to Soleure with his father, the King of France's ambassador to Switzerland, where he met the baron of Breteuil, Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, who was a former minister of the king and had lived with the Saint-Georges family since he emigrated. The baron of Breteuil chose the young de Vérac to be his secretary and assist him in his correspondences with the king and diplomats abroad. De Vérac was even sent as a dispatcher to Paris, thus learning secrets unknown to even his father.
After learning of the King's arrest, the young man remained at his post and continued to work with the baron of Breteuil to save the king and queen.[2]
After the execution of Louis XVI, de Vérac followed the baron of Breteuil to Brussels[3] then traveled abroad.[2] In 1796, he, along with the staff of Wurmser, followed the Italian campaign. The viscount of Vérac, who was not listed by name on any emigration lists, returned to France in 1799.[3]
