Victor-Thérèse Charpentier

Victor-Therese Charpentier
Reign	17??-1776
Count of Ennery
Spouse	Rose d'Alesso Olive Puybaudet
Issue	Pauline François de Paule Charpentier, Duchess of Levis Geneviève Pauline Aimée Charpentier
House	House of Charpentier
Father	Thomas-Jacques Charpentier
Mother	Madeleine-Angelique Rioult de Douilly

Victor-Therese Charpentier d'Ennery (March 24, 1732 – December 13, 1776) was the marquis of Ennery and was also a governor general of Saint-Domingue in the mid-to-late 18th century.

Family

Charpentier was born in Paris, France to Thomas-Jacques Charpentier d'Ennery and Madeleine Angélique Rioult de Curzay. Charpentier d'ennery is also the grandson of Jacques Charpentier d'Ennery, the Lord of D'Ennery and Espier. He also has a sister, Cécile Pauline Charpentier d'Ennery, who married Gilbert de Chauvigny de Blot, a governor of Chantelle. On January 11, 1768 in Paris, he married Benedicte d'Alesso and had one child:

~Pauline François de Paule Charpentier (died 1819) married Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis, son of Francois de Gaston, Chevalier de Levis.

Charpentier also had another child with Olive Puybaudet:

~Geneviève Pauline Aimée Charpentier (1776–1850), who married Louis de Tibi (died 1802) and then married Joseph Castel.

Accomplisments

Charpentier was Count and later the Marquis of d'Ennery and also the governor-general of Saint-Domingue. He was also the Governor of Martinique from 1765-1768 and also the governor general of the Windward Islands from 1768–1771, 4 years before his death.

Descendants

1) Pauline d'Ennery

        Adele-Charlotte, Duchess of Levis
                    
                     Raymond de Nicolay
                     Aymar de Nicolay

      Gaston Francois, Duke of Levis

2) ???

3) Aimée CASTEL née D'ENNERY (many descendants, including):

       Elisabeth Henriette DÉJOIE FRANGEUL née CASTEL
          Charles FRANGEUL 
             Julia PRÉZEAU née FRANGEUL
               Yvonne LIAUTAUD née PRÉZEAU
                   Colette SANSARICQ née LIAUTAUD

Through his youngest daughter, he is an ancestor of the Roy family, which include Denyse Roy, the first woman to be written in the magazine "La Reléve", Adrien Roy, architect who designed a national airport and other landmark buildings, Raymond Roy, who founded a metal company, and Odette Roy, an author.

Noble Titles

Because of his inability to produce a male heir, the title Count d'Ennery was not succeeded and died out after his death.

Death

Victor-Therese Charpentier died on December 31, 1776 in Port-au-Prince, during the Uprisings. He now rests in Louvre Museum.

References

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• Colonial and Departmental Heads of Martinique
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