1792 To Present
After the death of Henri-Michel, his son, Georges-Alexis d'Amboise who lived at château de Pray, near Amboise, left France for England. In London he married Louisa Barwell, daughter of Richard Barwell, MP. Georges-Alexis accompanied king Louis XVIII, and the princes to Ghent during the Hundred Days. After the battle of Waterloo he returned to France as a captain in the compagnie du Luxembourg. On 8 July 1819, Louis XVIII personally decorated him with the royal légion d'honneur.
Georges-Charles d'Amboise, (his son), and Charles-Eugène d'Amboise, (his grandson), only returned to France at the end of the 19th century. They both set up home in Provence, near Arles. For more than a century, the descendents of Charles-Eugène d'Amboise remained in this region, and at the start of the 21st century there are still two direct male descendents of this noble family - Alain-Georges d'Amboise and his brother Thierry d'Amboise.
Read more about this topic: House Of Amboise, History
Famous quotes containing the word present:
“I foresee the time when the painter will paint that scene, no longer going to Rome for a subject; the poet will sing it; the historian record it; and, with the Landing of the Pilgrims and the Declaration of Independence, it will be the ornament of some future national gallery, when at least the present form of slavery shall be no more here. We shall then be at liberty to weep for Captain Brown. Then, and not till then, we will take our revenge.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)