LAROCHEJACQUELEIN, la•roslezhak'lSN', Du VERGER DE. An ancient and noble family of Poitou in France, distinguished for its devotion to the cause of the Bourbons after 1789. HENRI DU VERGER, Count de Larochejacquelein (1772 94), was born at the Chateau of La Darbclliere. near Chatillon, became an officer in the Guard of Louis XVI., and after the bloody event of August 10, 1792, left Paris and joined the Royalists in La Venchse. He fought in all the long series of bat tles at Aubiers, lleaupralux, Thouars. Pontenay, Saumur, and Chatonay. After the decisive defeat at Cholet (October, 1793) lie was made generalis simo of the Vendean forces, though only twenty one years of age. He led his men successfully for a time, took Laval, but was defeated by W esterman and Marceau at Le Mans, December 13. 1703, and his army was scattered. He raised a new body of troops in Upper Poitou, but was killed in a battle at Nouaille. March 4, 1794.— Ills brother, LOUIS. DU VERGER, Marquis de La rocheja•quelein (1777-1815), was horn at Saint Aubin, emigrated at the commencement of the Revolution, returned to France, in 1801. but re
sisted all Napoleon's efforts to win him, and in 1813 placed himself at the head of the Royalists in La Vendee. Louis XVIII. appointed him in 1814 to the command of the Army of La Vendk, and during the Hundred Days he maintained the Roy alist cause there, supported by the British. He fell in battle at Pont-des-Mathis. .June 4, 1815.—Ilis wife, MARIE LOUISE VICTO1 RE, Marquise de La rochejacquelein (1772-1837), published Memoires (1855) treating of the war in La Vendee. of which she was an eye-witness.—HENRI AUGUSTE GEORGES DU VERGER, Marquis de Larochejacque lein (1803-67). son of Louis was made a peer in 1815. fought for the Holy Alliance in Spain in 1823. and joined the Russians again-4 the Turks in 1828. He brought about a rising in La Vendk against the July Monarchy, and was an 1111C0111 Legitimist till 1848, when he accepted the Republic, sat in the Constituent and Legis lative Assemblies and became an adherent of Louis Napoleon, who made him Senator in 1852.