Erasmus-Gaspard de Contades

[2] After the French campaign, he reached Aix-le-Chapelle, then Dusseldorf, where he began to write his memoirs, before arriving in January 1795 in London, which had become the headquarters of the emigrants.

His wife and her mother had been arrested in Angers, but were released in Blois and transferred to Paris following the Coup d'état of 9 Thermidor.

He rallied to the First French Empire and Contades commanded the Guard of Honour in 1808 which accompanied Napoleon I and Josephine when they crossed the department.

On 1 April 1809, he was named Chamberlain to the Emperor, often staying in Paris, and was made a Count of the Empire on 28 May 1809, serving as a Peer of France from 1815 to 1830.

[2] At the Restoration, he was made a member of Chamber of Peers and divided his time between the Luxembourg Palace and the Château de Montgeoffroy.