Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie
Athanase-Charles-Marie Charette de la Contrie
Athanase Charles Marie de Charette, 2nd Baron de La Contrie, was a 19th-century general of France who distinguished himself in the defense of the Papal States and subsequently during the Franco-German war of 1870. He was a grandson of Charles Ferdinand, Duke of Berry, the third child and younger son of Charles X, and Amy Brown, the Duke’s English mistress.
"He was, in the nineteenth century, a superb type of the valiant knight, devoted heart and soul to the defence of the popes temporal sovereignty, and consecrated himself to that cause in the same spirit which actuated the Crusades of the Middle Ages."
