Victor-Thérèse Charpentier


Victor-Thérèse Charpentier d'Ennery was the marquis, and later count, 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 the grandson of Jacques Charpentier d'Ennery, the Lord of D'Ennery and Espier. He had 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, a descendant of Philip I of France, and had one child:
~Pauline François de Paule Charpentier
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, who married Louis de Tibi and then married Joseph Castel.

Accomplishments

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 to 1768 and also the governor general of the Windward Islands from 1768 to 1771, four 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 :
Elisabeth Henriette DÉJOIE FRANGEUL née CASTEL
Charles FRANGEUL
Julia PRÉZEAU née FRANGEUL
Yvonne LIAUTAUD née PRÉZEAU
Gerard LIAUTAUD
Olivier Liautaud
Colette SANSARICQ née LIAUTAUD
Reginald SANSARICQ
Evelyne ORESKOVICH née SANSARICQ
Jean Paul SANSARICQ
Jacqueline MANGONES née LIAUTAUD
Jean Gilbert ROOZEN
Josette TKACIK née ROOZEN
Tomas Tkacik

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. His final resting place is in a large, beautiful memorial commissioned by his widow and his sister, the Madame de Blot. The memorial portrays his widow and sister grieving by his grave with child. The memorial can be found in the Louvre Museum.