The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . : LaRochejoucauld-Liancourt, 17i7-1827 (Paris, 1903). Georges Goyau. La Rocbejacquelein, Hbnri-Auguste-Georges duVergier, Comte de, French politician; b. at thechateau of Citran (Gironde), on 28 September. 1805;d. on 7 January,1867. He belongedto an old illus-trious French fam-ily, whose nameis mentioned inconnexion withSaint Louiss Cru-sade in 1248. Hisfather, Louis de LaRochej acquelein,andhisuncle Henrihad won fame asroyalist generalsin the
The Catholic encyclopedia (Volume 9); an international work of reference on the constitution, doctrine, discipline and history of the Catholic Church . : LaRochejoucauld-Liancourt, 17i7-1827 (Paris, 1903). Georges Goyau. La Rocbejacquelein, Hbnri-Auguste-Georges duVergier, Comte de, French politician; b. at thechateau of Citran (Gironde), on 28 September. 1805;d. on 7 January,1867. He belongedto an old illus-trious French fam-ily, whose nameis mentioned inconnexion withSaint Louiss Cru-sade in 1248. Hisfather, Louis de LaRochej acquelein,andhisuncle Henrihad won fame asroyalist generalsin the wars of theVend^ans againstthe National Con-vention. Hismother left inter-esting memoirswhich have beenedited many La Roche-j acquelein entered the military academy at Saint-Cyr atthe age of sixteen and in 1823 he received a commissionas second lieutenant in the cavalry. He took part in theSpanish War (1823) and in the Russo-Turkish War of1828. In 1825 he had been made a peer, but he re-signed shortly after the Revolution of 1S30, whichbrought the younger branch of the House of Bourbonto the throne of France. The Department of Morbi-. CoMTB DE La Rochej acquelein LA ROCHELLE ( han sent him to the legislature in 1842. He took hisseat among the members of the Extreme Right, or Le-gitimist party, with whom he usually cast his vote,although he occasionally supported liberal the Gazette de France supported his can-didacy for the presidency of the newly establishedFrench Republic, but he obtained only an insignificantnumber of votes. In he was made a senator byNapoleon III, which caused some astonishment andcomment among his friends the Legitimists. In thesenate La Rochejacquelein always showed himself anardent defender of Catholicism, but he may be re-proached with having given his support to the wholeforeign policy of the imperial Government. He pub-lished a number of works on political and economicalsubjects, among them being: Considerations sur
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