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Julien-Marie-Gaston du Vergier, marquis de La Rochejaquelein(March 27, 1833, Chartres - July 30, 1897, Château de Clisson in Boismé), is a French politician.

Biography
Son of Henri-Auguste-Georges de La Rochejaquelein, he began political life in 1869, already being general councilor of Deux-Sèvres, by submitting his opposition candidacy to the Legislative Body, on May 24, in the 3rd constituency of Deux -Sèvres (Bressuire); although he gathered the votes of the legitimist opposition and the majority of the votes of the republican opposition, he failed, after a fierce struggle, against the outgoing deputy, official candidate, Charles Le Roux. He had the election of his competitor challenged before the courts by Mr. Ricard, and before the Legislative Body by Jules Favre, and entered parliament in the following elections, after the fall of the Empire, having been elected, on February 8, 1871, representative of Deux-Sèvres in the National Assembly.

He took his place with the monarchist, was part of the meeting of the Reservoirs and the “Light Horse”, participated in the negotiations aimed at restoring the monarchy, and signed (1874) the proposal requesting its reestablishment. Member of the permanence commission, he spoke on the various budgets, on the law of municipal elections, the Installation of ministries in Versailles, against the International, supported the appointment of mayors and deputies by the government, and protested against the project constitutional laws (February 1875); he voted for the preliminaries of peace, for public prayers, for the repeal of the laws of exile, for the constituent power of the Assembly, for the resignation of Adolphe Thiers, for the decree against civil burials, for the seven-year term, against the return of the Assembly to Paris, against the de Broglie ministry, against the dissolution, against the proposal of the center left, against the Walloon amendment, against the constitutional laws.

During the appointment of irremovable senators by the Assembly (December 1875), he was among the small number of members of the right who refused to owe their appointment to a compromise with the left, and who publicly protested against this compromise. Leader of the legitimist party in Deux-Sèvres, he created a small newspaper in Niort, Le Poiton.

Candidate in the elections of February 20, 1876, in the district of Bressuire, he was elected against the Republican candidate, Mr. Bernard. This election was invalidated by the Chamber on March 31, which reproached the elected official for a circular "to the inhabitants of Bocage", to which La Rochejaquelein declared himself foreign, and which accused the Republicans, if they triumphed in the elections, of wanting to “hang the priests and sell the churches”. The voters of Bressuire, convened again on May 21, re-elected La Rochejaquelein.

The dissolution of the Chamber by the cabinet of May 16 having caused new elections, on October 14, 1877, La Rochejaquelein, candidate of the marshal's government, was re-elected in Bressuire, facing the Republican candidate Jouffrault. The majority of the new Chamber ordered an investigation into this election which lasted almost a year: the report, concluding that it was invalidated, was voted on, and La Rochejaquelein represented himself again, on February 2, 1879, before his voters, who gave little majority in Jouffrault; he then resigned as general advisor to Bressuire.

In the general elections of August 21, 1881, La Rochejaquelein regained the seat of Bressuire, elected deputy against Jouffrault. He returned to the monarchist right, and fought the republican ministries with his votes. On the death of the “Count of Chambord”, he joined forces with the Count of Paris, and became president of the royalist committee of Deux-Sèvres. The elections of October 4, 1885, by list ballot, were unfavorable to the conservative list in Deux-Sèvres.

He published, in 1889, based on the original manuscript, an edition of the Memoirs of the Marquise de la Rochejaquelein, his grandmother.

La Rochejaquelein was re-elected as a monarchist deputy in the general elections of 1889, then in 1893, and died in 1897, during his mandate.