Known as Benoist d’Angers, a banker and diplomat, he was a deputy for Maine-et-Loire under the Restoration and a minister of State in 1828. He married the painter Marie-Guillemine Laville-Leroux.
Count Pierre-Vincent Benoist died in December 1834: the inventory after his death, at 27 rue Saint-Dominique, is dated 15 December[1].
Comte Benoist. Ancestor no. 66 and no. 68 of Augustin Cochin, on his father’s side, in the Pierfit collaborative tree on Geneanet.
The man8rove collaborative database gives him as “Pierre-Vincent Benoist, alias Pierre-Vincent Benoist d’Angers (1758 - 1834), comte Benoist, ministre d’État et membre du Conseil privé, député de Maine-et-Loire, commandeur de l’ordre de la Légion d’honneur”.
Brothers and sisters, according to the Pierfit tree: Marguerite Céleste (1753 – 1779), Félicité (1756 – ?), Auguste Alexandre François Benoist-Cavay (1760 – 1840).
- Parent of
- Denys Benoist d’Azy (1796 – 1880)
- Married
- Marie-Guillemine Leroulx de La Ville, in 1792 or 1793
He appears twice in the tree, through two different lines; his parents are given at the other entry. Go to the other entry
Read the Wikipedia article (in French) ↗Sources (1)
1.Inventaire après décès du comte Pierre-Vincent Benoist, 15 décembre 1834, répertoire du notaire Louis-Édouard Dreux (Archives nationales, Minutier central, étude CVIII, MC/RE/CVIII/27) : notice de la base Miriad des inventaires après décès, salle des inventaires virtuelle, mention du répertoire, MC/RE/CVIII/27, d’après la base Miriad.
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