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--- "La France Protestante" Vol. 6,1856, page 465:
Il eut de ce mariage Pierre, negociant a Orthez, qui s'unit, le 10 Avril 1708, a Sara de Peyrollet, fille de Jacques de Peyrollet, de La Bastide, refugie en Hollande apres la revocation, et de Sara de Casson, d'Oleron. Trois fils et plusieurs filles sontissus de ce mariage, savoir: Jacques, mort jeune a Orthes; Matthieu at Susanne, nes le 4er septembre 1724, dont nous parlerons plus bas; Pierre, ne a Orthez en 1726, negociant a Paris, puis a Nantes, qui se retira, en 1796, dans sa ville natale ou il mourut, le 12 Juin 1808. Une des filles de Pierre de Labouchere fut enlevee a ses parents et enfermee au couvent des Ursulines d'Orthez, ou elle prit le voile sous le nom de soeur Scholastique. La Revolution l'ayant chassee de cet asile, son neveu Pierre-Cesar pour-fut genereusement a son sort. Lorsque son frere Pierre se fut retire a Orthez, elle vecut aupres de lui jusqu a sa mort; puis elle reprit la vie religieuse et devint superieure de la communaute de Saint-Gerion a Hagetmau, ou elle mourut en 1824, a l'age de 96 ans.
Matthieu fut envoye tres-jeune en Angleterre avec sa soeur jumelie Susanne. Apres avoir termine son education aupres du pasteur Magendie, a Londres, il se rendit a La Haye. Sa soeur qui l'y accompagna, epousa M. Yver. Matthieu se maria en premieres noces avec une demoiselle de Courcelles, et en secondes, avec Marie-Madeleine Moliere, fille de A-M Moliere et de Marie-Elizabeth Veron, deux famillies de refugies. Il mourut au commencement de 1796. De son premier mariage il ne liu naquet qu'un fils qui mourut jeune; du second provinrent deux filles, toutes deux nommees Henriette, mortes enfants, et quatre fils, Abel, ne en 1770 et mort a Amsterdam, en 1804; Pierre-Cesar, chef de la branche etablie en Angleterre; Antoine-Marie, souches de la branche francaise; et Samuel-Pierre, qui continua la descendance en Hollande.
1. Pierre-Cesar Labouchere naquit a La Haye, en 1772. En 1785, il fut envoye a Nantes aupres de son oncle Pierre, et travailla dans ses bureaux jusqu'en 1790, epoque au il entra comme commis de correspondance francaise dans la maison Hope d'Amsterdam. Quatre ans plus tard, a l'age de 22 ans, il fut associe a cette importante maison de commerce, en meme temps que M. Alexandre Baring, dont il epousa la soeur, Dorothee, en 1796. En 1799, M. Labouchere fit un voyage a la Martinique. L'annee suivante, il etait de retour en Angleterre, ou la maison Hope avait transporte le siege de ses affaires apres l'invasion de la Hollande par Pichegru. Cette maison ne fut retablie dans son ancien poste qu'en 1802.
Nous ne pouvons entrer dans le detail des grandes operations financieres auxquelles M. Labouchere a pris pari. Qu'il nous suffise de dire qu'il portait dans les affaires des sentiments d'honneuret de probitequ'on pourrait appeler chevaleresques, tantils etaient au-dessus du commun. Nous ne citerons qu'un fait que nous donnerons en exemple. Les maisons Hope et Baring avaient soumissionne un emprunt fait par le gouvernement francais. Tout etait conclu, lorsque la reflexion vint, apres coup, au ministre des finances, qui s'apercut que l'arraire serait tresonereuse pour l'Etat. Un ami commun, temoin de sa perplexite, le rassura en lui disant: "Je connais M. Labouchere, c'est l'homme du monde le plus integre et le plus genereux, et j'ai la conviction qu'en lui exposant votre situation, vous obteindrez de lui et de son digne beaufrere l'annulation dy contrat." Cet ami l'avait bein juge. Que d'autres se seraient empresses de jeter les titres sur la place, pour profiter de ce bon coup!
En 1810, M. Labouchere fut agree par l'Empereur pour une mission secrete en Angleterre. Il s'agissait de sonder le gouvernement anglais sur les conditions qu'il mettrait au retablissement de la paix en Europe. Les exigences de Napoleon ne furent pas admises, et la negociation dut en rester la. Mais le duc d'Otrante la reprit, a 'linsu de son matire. M. Labouchere, qui ne se doutait de rien, coninua son role de negociateur. Napoleon ayant decouvert cette intrigue, destitua son ministre, et manda a Paris M. Labouchere. M. Thiers rapporte au long les details de cette affaire, dans le 12 vol. de son Histoire du consulat et de l'empire.
"Des amis, dit-il, lui [M. Labouchere] expedierent un courrier pour l'engager a rebrousser chemin, et ne pas venir se geter dans la gueule du lion; mais fort de sa conscience et de sa droiture, il poursuivit sa route jusques a Paris, et on reconnut bientut qu'il s'etait conduit avec discretion, convenance, sincerite; qu'il ne s'etait mele de ces ouvertures que parce qu'il avait cru obeir aux volontes du gouvernement; que meme par une sorte de reserve qui lui etait naturelle, il s'etait toujours tenu en deca de ce qu'on lui disait, et qu'il s'etait borne le plus souvent a transmettre les notes envoyees par M. Ouvrard [l'intermediaire de Fouche]."
En 1821, apres une carriere honorablement remplie, M. Labouchere se retira des affaires, en nommant sen plus jeune frere, Samuel, son second fils et un de ses neveux Baring associes de la maison Hope. Il se fixa en Angleterre, ou il mourut, le 16 Janvier 1839, apres une courte maladie, dans une de ses terres pres de Chelmsford, dans le comte d'Essex. Il laissa deux fils. Le cadet, John, un des chefs de la maison de banque Williams, Deacon et Labouchere, "homme modeste, d'une grande piete, et d'une grande charite," a epouse une demoiselle Dupre, issue d'une famille de refugies en Angleterre; l'aine, Henry, est un des hommes d'Etat les plus eminents dont s'honore aujourd'hui l'Angleterre. Il fit ses etudes a l'ecole publique de Winchester, ou il se lia d'amitie avec le comte de Derby; il all ensuite a l'universite d'Oxford qu'il quitta avec les honneurs, with the honors. Il entra jeune dans la chambre des Communes, comme representant du bourg de Taunton. En 1833, il fut nomme un des lords de l'Amiraute; en 1837, membre du Conseil prive, directeur de la Monnaie, vice-President du Board of Trade; en 1839, sous-secretaire d'Etat des Colonies; en 1840, ministre du commerce; en 1847, premier secretaire d'Irlande, puis de nouveau ministre du commerce. En 1855, il a fait partie du jury international des Beaux-Arts de l'Exposition universelle, et il vient d'etre appele au ministere des colonies. Marie une premiere fois a une de ses cousines germaines, Fanny Baring, qui luidonna trois filles, il epousa, en secondes noces, Lady Mary Howard, soeur du vice-roi d'Irlande, le comte de Carlisle.
II. Antoine-Marie, troisieme fils de Matthieu Labouchere, naquit a La Haye, le 14 avril 1775. Il fut eleve avec ses freres a Offenback, pres de Francfort-surle Main. Apres avoir fait son education commerciale a Copenhague, a Petersbourg et a Londres, il all fonder a Nantes une maison de commerce. Il ne dementitpas les traditions de la famille. Sa maison devint une des plus honorables de cette importante place. On loue la noblesse de son caractere et l'affabillite de ses manieres. Il ne s'absorbait pas tout entierdans les affaires. Il aimait avec passion l'histoire naturelle et avait un penchant pour les beaux-arts auquel il s'abandonnait volontiers. Il peignait et gravait a l'eau forte avec la perfection d'un artiste. Depuis 1814, il remplit les fonctions de consul des Pays-Bas jusqu'a sa mort, arrivee a Nantes, le 4 sept 1829.
De son mariage, en 1804, avec Cathinka Meinche Knudtson, fille du principal armateur de Drontheim, naquirent cinq enfants: 1 Jean-Charles, ne le 25 avril 1805, qui succeda a son pere comme chef de la maison qu'il avait fondee, et qui, en 1833, alla s'atablier au Havre, commue associe dirigeant de la maison Hottinger du Havre. Il epousa, en 1835, Caroline Feray; --- 2 Henriette-Emilie, nee le 12 juillet 1806, mariee, en 1829, a Albert Insinger, et morte aux Eaux-Bonnes, le 14 sept 1831; --- 3 Pierre-Antoine, ne le 26 nov 1807, qui suit; --- 4 Louise-Hortense, nee en 1810, mariee en fevr 1832 a M. Auguste Dassier, banquier a Paris, President de la Compagnie du chemin de fer de Lyon a Paris; --- 5 Mathilde-Adelaide-Cathinka, nee le 7 mai 1815, mariee, en nov 1836, a M. ch. Royd Smith.
M. Pierre-Antoine Labouchere fit ses etudes en Allemagne et en Angleterre. Place d'abord dans une maison de commerce a Anvers, il fit, en 1827, un voyage aux Etats-Unis, comme secretaire de M. Bates, chef de la maison Baring, et en 1832, il alla en Chine comme subrecargue d'un navire du port de Nantes appartenant a son frere. "Mais helas! plus il allait, plus il voyait, et moins il se sentait d'aptitude au negoce." La peinture avait toujours ete sa passion dominante, et le sejour qu'il avait fait a Anvers au milieu de tant de chefs-d'oeuvre de l'ecole flamande, n'avait servi qu'a la developper. Aussi, en 1836, renonca-t-il a la carriere commerciale, et apres un voyage d'un an en Italie, il revint a Paris continuer ses etudes sous la direction de son ami et maitre M. Paul Delaroche: "Profondement penetre de la foi de ses peres," M. Labouchere retrace de preference des scenes de l'histoire de la Reformation. On a de lui plusieurs grandes toiles: Luther, Malanchthon, Pomeranus et Cruziger traduisant la Bible, tableau qui appartenait au roi des Pays-Bas, Guillaume II, et qui a valu a l'auteur l'ordre du Lion Neerlandais; Calvin pRESIdant un colloque a Geneve; Luther a la diete de Worms, etc. On lui doit, en outre, une serie de sujets tires de la vie de Luther, qui ont ete graves, et pour lesquels M. Merle d'Aubigne a ecrit les textes. Le 23 mai 1839, M. Labouchere epousa Natalie Mallet.
III. Samuel-Pierre, quatrieme fils de Matthieu Labouchere, naquit a La Haye, en 1778. Il fut pendant longtemps a la tete de la maison Labouchere de Rotterdam, et devint, en 1824, associe de la maison Hope d'Amsterdam, dont il esst actuellement le chef. De son mariage, en 1806, avec Sara-Maria-Theodora Jotting, qu'il perdit en 1855, naquirent quatre fils et trois filles: 1 Henri-Matthieu, ne en 1807, associe de la maison Hope, qui epousa, en 1840, Keyet van Lennep, fille du savant professeur de ce nom; -- 2 Pierre-Cesar, ne en 1808, qui spousa, en 1832, Eugenie de Lepel; -- 3 Francois-Antoine, ne en 1809, et mort en 1849, qui avait epouse, en 1838, Nancy Hudig; --- 4 Emilie, nee en 1811, mariee, en 1837, a Charles Martin, de Geneve; -- 5 Charles-Bernard, ne en 1812, qui epousa, en 1854, Henrette Woombergh; -- 6 Henriette, nee en 1815, mariee a M. Jean Van Eeghen, d'Amsterdam; -- 7 Adele, mariee, en 1856, a M. Theodore Van Heys.
From this marriage he had Pierre, a trader at Orthez, who joined on April 10, 1708, Sara de Peyrollet, daughter of Jacques de Peyrollet, from La Bastide, who took refuge in Holland after the revocation, and Sara de Casson, d 'Oleron. Three sons and several daughters came out of this marriage, namely: Jacques, died young at Orthes; Matthieu at Susanne, born September 4, 1724, which we will discuss below; Pierre, born in Orthez in 1726, negotiating in Paris, then in Nantes, who retired, in 1796, to his hometown where he died, June 12, 1808. One of Pierre de Labouchere's daughters was kidnapped from her parents and confined at the Ursuline convent of Orthez, where she took the veil under the name of Sister Scholastique. The Revolution having chased him from this asylum, his nephew Pierre-Cesar was generously to his fate. When his brother Pierre had retired to Orthez, she lived with him until his death; then she resumed religious life and became superior of the community of Saint-Gerion in Hagetmau, where she died in 1824, at the age of 96 years.
Matthieu was sent very young to England with his twin sister Susanne. After finishing his education with Pastor Magendie in London, he went to The Hague. His sister, who accompanied him, married Mr. Yver. Matthieu married for the first time to a young lady from Courcelles, and in seconds, to Marie-Madeleine Moliere, daughter of A-M Moliere and Marie-Elizabeth Veron, two families of refugees. He died at the beginning of 1796. From his first marriage he was born only to a son who died young; from the second came two daughters, both named Henriette, dead children, and four sons, Abel, born in 1770 and died in Amsterdam, in 1804; Pierre-Cesar, head of the branch established in England; Antoine-Marie, strains from the French branch; and Samuel-Pierre, who continued the descendants in Holland.
1. Pierre-Cesar Labouchere was born in The Hague in 1772. In 1785 he was sent to Nantes to his uncle Pierre, and worked in his offices until 1790, when he entered as a French correspondence clerk in the house Hope from Amsterdam. Four years later, at the age of 22, he was associated with this important trading house, at the same time as Mr. Alexandre Baring, whose sister, Dorothee, in 1796. In 1799, Mr. Labouchere made a trip to Martinique. The following year, he was back in England, where the Hope house had moved its business headquarters after Pichegru's invasion of Holland. This house was not restored to its former post until 1802.
We cannot go into the details of the great financial operations in which M. Labouchere took part. Suffice it to say that he carried in affairs feelings of honor and probity which one could call chivalrous, so much were they above the common. We will cite only one fact which we will give as an example. Hope and Baring houses had submitted a loan made by the French government. Everything was concluded, when the reflection came, after the fact, to the Minister of Finance, who realized that the backwardness would be very burdensome for the State. A mutual friend, witness to his perplexity, reassured him by saying to him: "I know Mr. Labouchere, he is the most integrated and generous man in the world, and I am convinced that by exposing him to your situation, you will obtain from him and his worthy brother the cancellation of the contract. " This friend had been a good judge. How many others would have hastened to throw the titles on the square, to take advantage of this good move!
In 1810, Mr. Labouchere was approved by the Emperor for a secret mission in England. It was a question of probing the English government on the conditions which it would put in the restoration of peace in Europe. Napoleon's demands were not accepted, and the negotiation had to remain there. But the Duke of Otranto took it back, unbeknownst to him. Mr. Labouchere, who suspected nothing, continued his role as a negotiator. Napoleon having discovered this intrigue, dismissed his minister, and sent M. Labouchere to Paris. Mr. Thiers reports on the details of this case in 12 vol. of his History of the Consulate and the Empire.
"Friends, he said, sent him [Mr. Labouchere] a letter urging him to turn back, and not to come and bump into the lion's mouth; but strong of his conscience and his righteousness, he continued his en route to Paris, and it was soon recognized that he had behaved with discretion, convenience, sincerity; that he had only been involved in these overtures because he believed he was obeying the will of the government; that even by a kind of reserve which was natural to him, he had always kept short of what he was told, and that he had confined himself most often to transmitting the notes sent by Mr. Ouvrard [the intermediary of Fouche]. "
In 1821, after an honorably full career, Mr. Labouchere retired from business, appointing his youngest brother, Samuel, his second son and one of his Baring nephews, associates of the Hope family. He settled in England, where he died on January 16, 1839, after a short illness, in one of his lands near Chelmsford, in the Earl of Essex. He left two sons. The youngest, John, one of the heads of the Williams bank house, Deacon and Labouchere, "a modest man, of great piety, and of great charity," married a young lady Dupre, from a family of refugees. in England; the eldest, Henry, is one of the most eminent statesmen of England today. He studied at the public school in Winchester, where he became friends with the Earl of Derby; he then went to the university of Oxford which he left with honors, with the honors. He entered the House of Commons at a young age, as a representative of the town of Taunton. In 1833 he was named one of the lords of the Admiralty; in 1837, member of the Private Council, director of the Mint, vice-President of the Board of Trade; in 1839, Under-Secretary of State for the Colonies; in 1840, Minister of Commerce; in 1847, first secretary of Ireland, then new Minister of Commerce. In 1855, he was a member of the international jury of Fine Arts at the Universal Exhibition, and he has just been called to the colonial ministry. Married for the first time to one of his first cousins, Fanny Baring, who had three daughters, he married, in second marriage, Lady Mary Howard, sister of the viceroy of Ireland, the Earl of Carlisle.
II. Antoine-Marie, third son of Matthieu Labouchere, was born in The Hague on April 14, 1775. He was raised with his brothers at Offenback, near Frankfurt am Main. After having made his commercial education in Copenhagen, in Petersburg and in London, he went to found in Nantes a trading house. He does not deny the traditions of the family. His house became one of the most honorable of this important place. We praise the nobility of his character and the affability of his manners. He was not completely absorbed in business. He loved natural history with passion and had a penchant for the fine arts which he willingly gave up on. He painted and engraved in etching with the perfection of an artist. Since 1814, he served as Netherlands consul until his death, arriving in Nantes on September 4, 1829.
From his marriage in 1804 to Cathinka Meinche Knudtson, daughter of the main shipowner from Drontheim, five children were born: 1 Jean-Charles, born April 25, 1805, who succeeded his father as head of the house he had founded, and who, in 1833, went to settle in Le Havre, as an associate manager of the Hottinger house in Le Havre. In 1835 he married Caroline Feray; --- 2 Henriette-Emilie, born July 12, 1806, married in 1829 to Albert Insinger, and died in Eaux-Bonnes, September 14, 1831; --- 3 Pierre-Antoine, born Nov 26, 1807, which follows; --- 4 Louise-Hortense, born in 1810, married in February 1832 to Mr. Auguste Dassier, banker in Paris, President of the Railway Company from Lyon to Paris; --- 5 Mathilde-Adelaide-Cathinka, born May 7, 1815, married, in Nov 1836, to M. ch. Royd Smith.
Mr. Pierre-Antoine Labouchere studied in Germany and England. First placed in a trading house in Antwerp, he made, in 1827, a trip to the United States, as secretary to Mr. Bates, head of the Baring house, and in 1832, he went to China as subrecargue of a ship from the port of Nantes belonging to his brother. "But alas! The more he went, the more he saw, and the less he felt capable of trading." Painting had always been his dominant passion, and the stay he had made in Antwerp amidst so many masterpieces of the Flemish school, had only served to develop it. Also, in 1836, he renounced the commercial career, and after a year-long trip to Italy, he returned to Paris to continue his studies under the direction of his friend and master Mr. Paul Delaroche: "Deeply penetrated by the faith of his fathers, "M. Labouchere preferably retraces scenes from the history of the Reformation. He has several large paintings: Luther, Malanchthon, Pomeranus and Cruziger translating the Bible, a painting which belonged to the king of the Netherlands, William II, and which won the author the order of the Dutch Lion; Calvin presiding over a conference in Geneva; Luther to the Worms Diet, etc. We owe him, moreover, a series of subjects drawn from the life of Luther, which were serious, and for which M. Merle d'Aubigne wrote the texts. On May 23, 1839, Mr. Labouchere married Natalie Mallet.
III. Samuel-Pierre, fourth son of Matthieu Labouchere, was born in The Hague, in 1778. He was for a long time at the head of the Labouchere house in Rotterdam, and became, in 1824, associate of the Hope house in Amsterdam, of which he is currently the chef. From his marriage in 1806 to Sara-Maria-Theodora Jotting, whom he lost in 1855, four sons and three daughters were born: 1 Henri-Matthieu, born in 1807, associate of the house of Hope, who married in 1840, Keyet van Lennep, daughter of the learned professor of this name; - 2 Pierre-Cesar, born in 1808, who spoused, in 1832, Eugenie de Lepel; - 3 Francois-Antoine, born in 1809, and died in 1849, who had married, in 1838, Nancy Hudig; --- 4 Emilie, born in 1811, married, in 1837, to Charles Martin, of Geneva; - 5 Charles-Bernard, born in 1812, who married, in 1854, Henrette Woombergh; - 6 Henriette, born in 1815, married to Mr. Jean Van Eeghen, of Amsterdam; - 7 Adele, married, in 1856, to Mr. Theodore Van Heys.
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1721 - 1796 (74 years)
