Jean-François-Louis-Marie-Albert-Gaspard Grimod (15 June 1772 – 26 December 1843), comted'Orsay, was a Bonapartist general and nobleman.
Early life
He was the son of the collector Pierre Gaspard Grimod, comte d'Orsay (1748–1809) and his first wife, Princess Marie Louise Amélie de Croÿ-Molembais, (1748–1772), who died in giving birth to him and his father began travelling Europe for consolation, gathering famous paintings and sculptures into a notable collection. After his mother's death, his father married Princess Marie Anne of Hohenlohe-Waldenburg-Bartenstein, on 22 August 1784. The couple moved to Germany in 1787, meaning that - on the outbreak of the French Revolution two years later - Albert's father was declared an émigré and their property in France was seized. They were left in the poverty in which Albert's father died.
His maternal grandparents were Prince Guillaume François de Croÿ and Anne Françoise Amélie de Trazegnies.
Career
He became a Général de brigade in Napoleon I's Grande Armée on 19 November 1813, a year before Napoleon's abdication and first exile.[1][permanent dead link] It is unknown what role he played in the previous and subsequent events of the Napoleonic Wars, or whether he supported Napoleon during the Hundred Days or at Waterloo, but he did survive the wars to see the Bourbon Restoration and the July Monarchy, dying five years before the end of the latter.
He was sold the chateau at Rupt-sur-Saône (then state property) in 1820.[2]
