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Charles Tristan de Montholon was born on July 21, 1783, in Paris, France.
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Charles Tristan de Montholon was born on July 21, 1783, in Paris, France.
Montholon was trained for a military career from a young age.
Entering the army in 1798, he rose with rapidity and avowed himself, when chef d’escadron in Paris at the time of the coup d’état of Brumaire (November 1799), entirely devoted to Bonaparte. He served with credit in the ensuing campaigns, and distinguished himself at the battle of Aspern-Essling (May 1809) where he was wounded. At the end of that campaign on the Danube he received the title of count and remained in close attendance on Napoleon, who confided to him several important duties, among others, a mission to the Archduke Ferdinand at Würzburg. At the time of the first abdication of Napoleon at Fontainebleau (April 11, 1814), Montholon was one of the few generals who advocated one more attempt to rally the French troops for the overthrow of the allies. After the second abdication (June 22, 1815) he accompanied the emperor to Rochefort, where Napoleon and his friends finally adopted the proposal, which emanated from Count Las Cases, that he should throw himself on the generosity of the British nation and surrender to H. M. S. "Bellerophon. " Montholon afterwards, at Plymouth, asserted that the conduct of Captain Maitland of the "Bellerophon" had been altogether honourable, and that the responsibility for the failure must rest largely with Las Cases. Montholon accompanied the ex-emperor to St Helena. To Montholon chiefly, Napoleon dictated the notes on his career which form so interesting, though far from trustworthy, a commentary on the events of the first part of his life. Montholon is known to have despised and flouted Las Cases, though in later writings he affected to laud his services to Napoleon. With Gourgaud, who was no less vain and sensitive than himself, there was a standing feud, which would have led to a duel but for the express prohibition of Napoleon. Las Cases left the island in November 1816, and Gourgaud in January 1818; but Montholon stayed on at Longwood to the end of the emperor’s life (May, 1821). Returning to Europe after the emperor's death, he acted as one of the executors of Napoleon's will.
Montholon had to spend many years in Belgium; and in 1840 acted as "chief of staff" in the absurd "expeditio" conducted by Louis Napoleon from London to Boulogne. He was condemned to imprisonment at Ham, but was released in 1847; he then retired to England and published the Récits de la captivité de Napoléon à Ste Hélène. In 1849 he became one of the deputies for the Legislative Assembly under the Second French Republic.
Charles Tristan de Montholon died on August 21, 1853, in Paris.
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Quotations: "On great occasions it is almost always women who have given the strongest proofs of virtue and devotion; the reason is, that with men good and bad qualities are in general the result of calculation, while in women they are impulses springing from the heart. "
On July 2, 1812, Charles Tristan de Montholon married Albine Vassal. Montholon probably fathered her two other sons, Tristan Charles François Napoléon de Montholon-Sémonville and Napoléon Charles Tristan de Montholon-Sémonville. Their son, Charles-François-Frédéric, was born in 1814. Their daughter, Hélène, born on Saint Helena in 1816, may have been fathered by Napoleon.
He fathered another son, Charles Jean Tristan by his mistress, Catherine O'Hara. They married sometime after Albine's death in 1848.