Florimond-Benjamin MacCurtain was a French Politician and Soldier who gained notoriety during the late 18th and early 19th century.
He was quickly granted the rank of ‘Commissioner of War’ within the Army, and elected deputy of the Loire-Inferior to the Council of Five Hundred.
During the French Consulate, he was relieved of his duties and remained out of public affairs during the age and chaos of Napoleon.
Following the restoration of the French monarchy he was permitted to rejoin the legitimist Army of Louis XVIII in 1814, and appointed military superintendent on October 4, 1820, an office which he held until his retirement on June 7, 1834.
[4] Florimond is the great-grandson of the Irish Officer,[4] Cornelius Curtain, who was in the service of King James II, and was briefly posted in France during the infamous Flight of the Wild Geese.