Louis Marie Baptiste Atthalin

[citation needed] During his time as a captain Atthalin came to the attention of Napoleon, who made him an aide de camp on 14 April 1811.

Supported by the votes of the ministers of the King, Atthalin was elected to the fourth electoral college of Bas-Rhin (Strasbourg) on 23 January 1831.

Atthalin continued to faithfully support the kingdom (known as the July Monarchy), and on 16 November 1840, he was promoted to lieutenant general.

Also a lithographer, he collaborated on several works such as Voyages pittoresques et romantiques dans l'ancienne France by Isidore Taylor and Charles Nodier or Antiquités de l'Alsace by Golbéry and Schweighaeuser.

Without direct descendants, Baron Atthalin adopted his nephew Louis Laurent-Atthalin in 1843, whose vocation as a watercolourist he encouraged.