Henry François Athanase Wlgrin de Taillefer

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Wlgrin de Taillefer

Henry François Athanase de Taillefer (23 April 1761 – 2 February 1833), better known as Wlgrin de Taillefer, was a French military figure, numismatist, archaeologist and historian.

Biography

Henry François Athanase de Taillefer was born at the Château de Barrière in Villamblard, the son of Henri Jacques de Taillefer (1739-1805), marquis of Barrière and Vern, count of Roussille, lord of Breuilh, Égliseneuve, Marsaneix, etc, and Suzanne-Thérèse d'Arlot de Frugie de la Roque, daughter of Jacques d'Arlot de Frugie de la Roque, count of la Roque, lord of Ajat, Bauzens, Fages, le Bousquet, Mas, etc., lieutenant of the king's armies, and of Marie-Thérèse de Hautefort.[1]

He was called Wlgrin de Taillefer in homage to his ancestor Wlgrin[2], Count of Angoulême and Périgord.

He entered the Royal-Poland Regiment as a lieutenant on August 10, 1777. He was appointed captain in the Royal-Cravat Regiment, cavalry, on July 12, 1781. He proved himself as a member of the king's carriages and had the honor of hunting with the king in 1783.

Passionate about local history and archaeology, he set up a "cabinet of antiques" in his castle in Barrière at a very young age, where he collected coins, medals, Gallic bronzes and Gallo-Roman carved stones.

The Revolution forced him to emigrate to Germany for ten years before returning to France. Before leaving France, as commander of the national guard of Villamblard, he gathered the national guards to bid them farewell. The Prince of Condé made him his aide-de-camp in Worms in 1791. He commanded a company of the cavalry corps of the Crown in 1795. He was made colonel of cavalry on January 6, 1798. To survive, he had to sell part of his collection.

He returned to France after the coronation of Napoleon. He found the castle of Barrière, in Villamblard, a little degraded. The coins, stones and paintings he had left there were gone. He realized that one of his former businessmen had taken some of the castle's objects home with him and became angry with him. Having lost a large part of his possessions, he retired to a small house in Périgueux where he continued his research on the antiquities of Vesunna begun before the Revolution. Around 1812, he met M. de Mourcin and undertook with him archaeological research in Vesone. He sold the castle of Villamblard in 1809 and bought the land around the Tower of Vesunna.

He was appointed marshal of camp and armies of the king on January 2, 1817.

Works

  • L'architecture soumise au principe de la nature et des arts, ou essai sur les moyens qui peuvent rapprocher les trois architectures d'une unité théorique et pratique (1804)
  • Notice historique sur les antiquités et monumens de la cité de Vésone, à laquelle la ville de Périgueux a succédé dans le Moyen-âge (1806)
  • Antiquités de Vésone, cité gauloise remplacée par la ville actuelle de Périgueux, ou Description des monumens religieux, civils et militaires de cette antique cité et de son territoire, précédée d'un essai sur les Gaulois (1821)

Notes

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References

  • Lesfargues, Bernard; Catherine Paoletti (2012). Dans l'Intimité du Comte W. de Taillefer: Correspondances et Écrits. Périgueux: La Lauze.

External links

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  1. ↑ Arlot de Saint-Saud, Aymard d' (1898). Généalogies périgourdines, III. Périgueux: Imprimerie de la Dordogne, p. 169.
  2. ↑ Wlgrin is pronounced "Woulgrin", also written Vulgrin.
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