Erasmus-Henri de Contades

Contades was born on 6 June 1814 in Angers, the prefecture of the Maine-et-Loire department.

[1] He was a son of Marie-Henriette d'Oms (1790–1858),[2] and Gaspard de Contades (1785–1817), a Senior Officer of Cuirassiers who died when he was only 31 years old.

[3] After serving as an embassy attaché, he was elected on 20 November 1847 to the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house of the French Parliament, for Cantal.

[4] The French Revolution of 1848, which led to the collapse of the July Monarchy and the foundation of the French Second Republic, ended his political career.

[5] On 27 June 1836, Contades married distant cousin Sophie de Castellane (1818–1904), a daughter of Count Boniface de Castellane and Louise Cordélia Greffulhe (younger sister of Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe).