Talk:Jacques Lauriston

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Parentage problem
The article claimed him as "the son of Jacques François Law de Lauriston (1724–1785)", the younger of John Law's two nephews; most sources, however, identify him as a son of the elder nephew Jean Law de Lauriston (1719-1797): both brothers held high military and civil positions in French India, and both seem to have married into the Carvalho family, Portugese merchants in India, with their wives being named Maria and Joana. The statement that he was Jean's son goes back to an insanely detailed history of their ancestral Scottish parish, published when the future Marshal was an obscure twenty-five-year-old. Edited into ambiguity, even so. AJN (talk) 02:51, 2 July 2012 (UTC)

Parentage implications
It is not unique for a member of the officer-class of ancien regime to survive the Revolution and to prosper under the Empire, but it still appears an achievement in itself. If one's father were a baron, it further suggests a degree of ability 'to keep your head when all about you are mounting the scaffold and losing theirs'. If the father were a baron, then he must have been a baron himself from 1797, if not before; a conversational detail he may have omitted to share with his fellow Citoyens. To thrive under the Empire and then thrive after the Restoration is again not unique, but that marquisate is getting to be pretty well-earned... J'ai survecu! Protozoon (talk) 13:57, 5 July 2015 (UTC)