Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803
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Name (Latin)
Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray de, 1725-1803
Other forms of name
De Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien Leray, 1725-1803
Le Ray de Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien, 1725-1803
Leray de Chaumont, Jacques-Donatien, 1725-1803
Date of birth
1725-09-01
Date of death
1803-02-22
Gender
male
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Sources of Information
- Schaeper, T.J. France and America in the revolutionary era, 1995:CIP t.p. (life of Jacques-Donatien Leray de Chaumont) galley (his tombstone in the cemetery near the chateau of Chaumont-sur-Loire, says he was born 1 Sept. 1724; the engraver erred; born in Nantes on 1 Sept. 1725 in the parish of Saint-Nicolas; expired 22 Feb. 1803; virtually all of his contemporaries spelled his name Le Ray de Chaumont, and vast majority of historians have used that form; but, he himself always wrote Leray or Leray de Chaumont; prior to the American Revolution, one of the most powerful and respected businessmen of the Old Regime; aided the American insurgents)