[1] Gerard Lally of Tullynadala was appointed a Baronet in the Baronetage of Ireland by the titular King James III and VIII (the "Old Pretender") on 7 July 1707.
Upon his return to France in 1746, he was appointed Earl of Moenmoyne, Viscount Ballymole and Baron Tollendally, in the Peerage of Ireland, by the Stuart claimant.
These titles were never recognised by the government in Great Britain (see Jacobite peerage).
Herein, the author had the Marquis de Sade remembering that before the introduction of the guillotine we were burned, or impaled, or broken, when it was our right as noblemen to demand the axe, until they botched Lally-Tollendal and he danced around for half a minute trying to hold his head on.
His only son, Trophime Gérard, was an émigré during the French Revolution, but after the Bourbon Restoration was named (21 March 1815) Marquis de Lally-Tollendal and a Peer of France.