Louis-Marie-Athanase de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1730–1794) was a French officer and politician.

Life

He was from the younger branch of the Lomenie Flavignac family originating in Limousin, which became in the seventeenth century the house of Brienne. Louis-Marie-Athanasius was the younger brother of Cardinal Etienne-Charles de Lomenie de Brienne, Minister of Louis XVI. As Lieutenant General of the armies of the king, he commanded the Royal regiment of Artois from 1747 to 1762. Appointed Secretary of State for War from 1787 to 1788, he was guillotined on 21 Floreal Year II (May 10, 1794) with four other members of his family and Élisabeth de France.

He was Marquis de Moy and lord of Vendeuil by marrying Etiennette Fizeau Clémont, who was the daughter of a wealthy mill owner in Saint-Quentin. He rebuilt the castle of Brienne in Paris, and bought a beautiful town house in the Rue Saint-Dominique called Hotel de Brienne, current residence of the Minister of the Army.

Athanase de Brienne and Etiennette Fizeaux had a son, François-Alexandre-Antoine Lomenie, Vicomte de Brienne, commanding officer of the 12th regiment of chasseur à cheval

Chasseur

Chasseur [sha-sur; Fr. sha-sœr] is the designation given to certain regiments of French light infantry or light cavalry troops, trained for rapid action.-History:...

, who was guillotined on 21 Floreal Year II at the age of 36 years. His widow, Madame de Montbreton, died in 1851; Brienne-le-Château

Brienne-le-Château

Brienne-le-Château is a commune in the Aube department in north-central France. It is located from the right bank of the Aube River and 26 m. northeast of Troyes....

 was then sold to the Princesse de Bauffremont.

Sources

• BNF, département des Manuscrits, div. occidentale, fonds Bauffremont Fr 23350-23621.
• Brienne (Comte de ) et Loménie de Brienne (Etienne-Charles de), Journal de l'Assemblée des Notables de 1787, éd. P. Chevallier, 1960.
• Mme de Créquy, Souvenirs.
• Stanford Library, 18th Century Judicial.
• Bunel Arnaud, Héraldique Européenne, 1997–2007.
• www.ville-brienne-le-chateau.fr
• archives of the Fizeaux family (private foundation).