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Victor-Thérèse Charpentier

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Victor-Therese Charpentier d'Ennery (March 24, 1732 – December 13, 1776) nicknamed "The Count of d'Ennery", was a governor general of Saint-Dominique in the mid to late 1700s. He is also a victim of the Uprisings.

Family

Charpentier was born in Paris, France to Thomas-Jacques Charpentier d'Ennery and Madeleine Angélique Rioult de Curzay. 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 Levis, 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-Dominique. 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. Charpentier obviously held many noble titles until the time of his death.

Death

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

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