Adrien, Count of Rougé

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Adrien, Count de Rougé, (July 2, 1782 – 1861) was a French statesman, distinguished soldier, and Peer of France.

Adrien was a son of Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé and his wife Natalie Victurnienne. He served under the Comte d'Artois, later King Charles X, in the Army of the Princes, first as a second lieutenant in the Infantry, then in 1800 as a "chasseur noble" in the Mortemart regiment. He served then as an officer of the King's Mousquetaires in 1814.

From 1815 to 1823, he was a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing the Departement of the Somme. In 1816, Charles X appointed him to the Peerage with the title of Comte. For a time he commanded one of the four subdivisions of the army stationed in Paris. He became the leader of the Knights of the Faith, a very powerful secret ultra conservative organisation. Like his older brother, Alexis Bonabes, Marquis de Rougé (head of the entire House of Rougé, Rougé du Plessis-Bellière et de Fay), he refused his allegiance to the government of King Louis Philippe.

By his wife, Caroline de Forbin d'Oppède, he had four children, and from him descends a younger branch of the Rougé dynasty.

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