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Regis De Trobriand was a French-born lawyer, writer and soldier. He served as the Brigadier General during the American Civil War, and was the author of several works on military themes.
Background
Regis De Trobriand was born on June 4, 1816 at his father's chateau near Tours, France. He was the son of Joseph, Baron de Trobriand, and Rochine Hachin De Courbeville.
The history of his family has been traced to Irish warriors who settled on the continent of Europe early enough to accompany William on his conquest of England. They returned thereafter to France, and their descendants were in 1426 made French nobles.
Joseph de Trobriand, a student in Paris at the outbreak of the French Revolution, became a soldier in Royalist forces outside France, but after 1806 he served as an officer under successive French governments till 1830. Then - relentlessly hostile to Louis Philippe - he resigned his commission as general, and left the army. In 1825 his son Regis was sent to school in Paris, but was driven away for exposing a priest - as he thought - in a betrayal of the confessional.
Education
De Trobriand graduated in 1834 from the College de Tours, and in law (1837) from Poitiers.
Career
De Trobriand engaged in duels, wrote poetry, and published a novel, Les Gentilshommes de l'Ouest (1840).
In 1841, on something resembling a dare, he came to America. He made the customary tour of the country, wrote a story, "Le Rebelle: Histoire Canadienne" which was published in the Courrier des Etats-Unis, became acquainted with prominent people, and betrothed himself in New York to the heiress, Mary Mason Jones.
In 1847 De Trobriand and his wife returned to New York. There De Trobriand became a member of the facile literary group adorned by N. P. Willis and George P. Morris. He was a rich man accustomed to making voyages to Europe, he was editor of the Revue du Nouveau Monde (1849-1850), and he was a regular contributor, commenting with a wealth of allusion on opera and whatnot, to Le Courrier des Etats-Unis.
In the summer of 1861, on being elected colonel of the "Gardes Lafayette" of the New York militia, he became an American citizen, and set out to help subdue the Confederacy. He was a valiant and sagacious officer throughout the war, and in April 1865 he was made by brevet a major-general of volunteers.
In July 1866 he was commissioned colonel in the regular army, but he was in France when this news reached him, and he continued there on leave till June 1867 in order that he might complete his reminiscent "Quatre Ans de Campagnes . .. l'Armee du Potomac" (1867-1868). This book, highly praised at the time of its publication, and translated, before long, into English, assumes a philosophy of the war which is often not valid.
Returning to America, he was on duty with the army - between his numerous trips to France - in Dakota, in Montana, in Utah, and in Wyoming. In 1874, on the death of a cousin, he succeeded to the title of count.
In January 1875, as the federal officer charged with upholding an alien government in Louisiana, he performed his work with a tact which won the regard even of his opponents. Upon his retirement from the army in March 1879, he made his residence in New Orleans.
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Personality
De Trobriand read much, cultivated his roses, visited in France, and spent the summers with his daughter on Long Island.
During the war, he was a gallant and inventive officer.
Interests
reading, gardening
Connections
De Trobriand married Mary Mason Jones in Paris in January 1843. After a year spent in touring Europe, they settled in Venice, where they associated intimately with all the available royalty and nobility - exiled and otherwise.