Ange Hyacinthe Maxence de Damas de Cormaillon, Baron de Damas (Paris September 30, 1785 to May 6, 1862) was a French general and Minister.
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At the death of his father Charles Damascus in Quiberon, Colonel aide to Mr. Maxence de Damas, great-grand-son of General Sarsfield, Irish hero. He is led by his uncle the Duke of Richelieu, and is presented to Tsar Paul I to join the military cadet school in St. Petersburg. He began a distinguished military career in the service of Czar Alexander. He participates in the European campaigns against the armies of Napoleon and entered Paris. At the request of Louis XVIII, Maxence de Damas began a new military career in France.
He was appointed lieutenant general in 1815 and given command of the 8th division Marseille. After having pacified the South, he commanded the 9th Division in Spain, he received the surrender of Figuières. He was appointed a Peer of France in 1823.
He became Minister of War in 1823, designed the Act of 1824, which emphasized commitment to the number, competence through training and length of service. In 1824, the king asked him to replace François-René de Chateaubriand, as Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He managed to solve the crisis in Spain and Portugal, and Greece with the Ottoman empire, and ordered an archaeological expedition on the Euphrates, which will update the City of Ur and the splendors of Khorsabad. He negotiated with the Republic of Santo Domingo for compensation of the French.
From 1828, he became tutor to the Duke of Bordeaux, future "Henry V". After the July Revolution (1830), he accompanied the Dauphin and the Charles X of France into exile.
By his marriage with Charlotte Laure de Hautefort, daughter Julie, Alix de Choiseul-Praslin, he became owner of the Château de Sainte-Suzanne (Mayenne) May 10, 1822; he sold the castle December 30, 1855.
The baron returned to Damascus in France in 1833, and retired to the castle of his wife, Hautefort. He began his ultimate career dedicated to social works, manager of the hospice Hautefort, creating the first local "social security", promoting agriculture through the introduction of a loan of honor, and writing his memoirs.
Baron de Damas (born in Paris September 30, 1785, died in Paris May 6, 1862, Lieutenant General in 1815, even of France in 1823, Minister of Foreign Affairs from 1824 to 1828, governor of the Duke of Bordeaux in 1828, an exile with Charles X in 1830, then retired to Hautefort in 1833, where he wrote his memoirs), and the body of his wife, born Sigismunda Charlotte Laure de Hautefort (born in Paris July 2, 1799, died September 10, 1847, daughter of Amadeus, Count of Hautefort, and of Julie Alix de Choiseul-Praslin)
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| Preceded by François-René de Chateaubriand |
Minister of War 4 August 1824 - 4 January 1828 |
Succeeded by Auguste, comte de La Ferronays |