Charles de Vintimille (2 September 1741 – 24 February 1814), marquis du Luc, was a French aristocrat and governor. He was the illegitimate son of Pauline Félicité de Mailly and king Louis XV of France and known as Demi-Louis ('Little Louis') because of his visual resemblance to his alleged biological father Louis XV.[1]

Life

After the death of his mother, Charles de Vintimille was raised by his aunt Louise Julie de Mailly until the baptism of December 19, 1742, in the castle of the legitimate father Jean Baptiste de Vintimille, in Savigny-sur-Orge. The king never paid him any personal attention.[2]

His father's mistress Madame de Pompadour wished to arrange a marriage between Charles de Vintimille and her daughter Alexandrine Le Normant d'Étiolles, but the king would not allow it.

He made a career in the royal regiment in Corsica, where he became a captain, lieutenant and governor of Porquerolles (1759), and later a Maréchal de camp (1780) and a knight of the Order of Saint Louis. He married Adélaïde de Castellane (1746-1770) in 1764, with whom he had three children.

References

  1. ↑ LEVER, Maurice: Luis XV, ed. Ariel, Barcelona, 2002, pag. 46.
  2. ↑ "But the king chose that the child should be baptized as the son of M. de Vintimille, and it was so done by his express order. The Archbishop of Paris and the Marquis du Luc, uncle and father of M. de Yintimille came, as good politicians, to see the mother and acknowledge the child":R.-L. de Voyer de Paulmy d'Argenson, Journal and Memoirs, by E. J. B. Rathery. with an introduction by C.-A. Sainte-Beuve. trad. K. Prescott Wormerly, Boston 1902, 1., p. 284.
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