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Alexandre Marie François de Paule de Dompierre d'Hornoy (1742–1828), French lawyer

Son of Nicolas Joseph de Dompierre (1689–1756) and his wife, Marie Elisabeth Mignot (c. 1715–1771); in 1770 he married Louise Sophie de Savalette (c. 1750–1807); they had one child, Charles François Victor (1776–1845). A lawyer in the parlement de Paris; he was president of the premier chambre in 1794, and was imprisoned for six months. A great-nephew of the writer Voltaire, he inherited Pigalle's life-sized nude statue of his great-uncle.