Pierre-Chaumont Liadières

He took part in the campaign in the Kingdom of Saxony, assisted at the battle of Leipzig and rose to the rank of lieutenant in 1813 before being captured the following year.

He was part of the garrison of Paris on the outbreak of the 1830 Revolution, fighting on the barricades and being made an ordnance officer by Louis-Philippe.

He was well-regarded at court and so was elected deputy for the fifth collège des Basses-Pyrénées (Orthez), replacing Pierre-Firmin Lestapis, who had been dismissed.

He was part of the 'Court party' in the lower chamber and was constantly re-elected (on 21 June 1834, 4 November 1837, 2 March 1839, 9 July 1842 and 1 August 1846) right up until the end of Louis-Philippe's reign.

After the French Revolution of 1848 he remained loyal to the July Monarchy and resigned from public life to devote himself to poetry and literature.