
| Louis-Thomas
(1718
-1799)
comte de Vallery His parents: Charles and Jeanne de Valois-St-Remy |
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| Son
of Charles Comte de Charolais and a lady of an illegitimate branch descendended
from king Henri II of Valois.
His birth posed serious problems
to his father who fought his whole life to make him legitimate. It is in
fact the marriage of his father that creates an impossible situation. This
marriage was not recognized by the Prince of Condé. Lacking male
heirs, Louis III could not accept that the rights of his house would pass
to the offspring of a marriage with an illegitimate branch of the House
of Valois. Moreover Thomas de Valois, Jeanne's father, had an execrable
reputation, a marriage with his daughter was thus undesirable. Louis-Thomas
was raised within a family that worked on the estates in Chantilly,
he became the administrator of the estate and dealt with the industrial
activities of the family. It included the porcelain and lace factories.
He received from his father the titles of Comte d'Anisy, Ecouen,
Vallery, and Fère. But this irritated the princesse de Conti who
felt that these titles belonged by
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