MONTALEMBERT

Charles Forbes René , Count de (son of Marc René Anne Marie de Montalembert an émigré and an officer in India, d. 21 June 1831, m. 1808 Eliza dau. of James Forbes of H.E.I.C.) b. Upper Brook st. London 15 May 1810; lived with James Forbes to 1 Aug. 1819, who then at his death left him everything; visited Ireland 1830; helped the abbé La Mennais to found l’Avenir 18 Oct. 1830; succeeded his father as a peer of France 21 June 1831; chief of the R.C. party in the chamber 1836; representative for Doubs in the National a embly 1848; condemned to fine and imprisonment for publishing Un deb at sur l’Inde au parlement Anglais 24 Nov. 1858, but sentence rescinded 21 Dec; visited England 1855, 1858 and 1862; author of A letter to a member of the Camden society on Catholic literary societies on the architectural, artistical and archæological movements of the Puseyites 1844; De l’ avenir politique de l’ Angleterre 1856; Pius IX. and lord Palmers ton 1856; The monks of the west from St. Benedict to St. Bernard 7 vols. 1861–79; The conversion of England, a sequel to The monks of the west 3 vols. 1867; St. Columba, apostle of Caledonia 1868; The insurrection in Poland 1863; Count de Montalembert’s Letter to a school-fellow 1874 and 40 other works. d. Paris 13 March 1870. Mrs. Oliphant’s Memoir of Count de Montalembert 2 vols. (1872); English Cyclopædia , iv 307 (1857), Supplement 1872 p. 902; Larou e’s Grand Dictionnaire , xi 484, 485 (1874).