Joseph-Alphonse-Omer de Valbelle (1729–1818) was a French aristocrat and military officer.
Biography
Early life Joseph-Alphonse-Omer de Valbelle was born on 18 June 1729 in Aix-en-Provence.Octave Teissier, Un grand seigneur au XVIIIe siècle: Le comte de Valbelle, Paris: Hachette & Cie., 1890 His father was André Geoffroy de Valbelle and his mother, Marguerite-Delphine de Valbelle.Tourves: Le château des Valbelles He had a brother, Joseph-Ignage-Cosme de Valbelle, and a sister, Anne Alphonsine de Valbelle.
Career He served as a mestre de camp in 1749, maréchal de camp in 1762, followed by Lieutenant general of Provence.
After his brother's death in 1766, he inherited the marquisates of Tourves, Rians, Montfuron, Bressuire, the Baronetcies of Saint-Symphorien-sur-Coise and Meyrargues, the Countom of Oraison, Valbelle, Sainte-Tulles, Cadarache, Rougiers, Venelles, Peyrolles-en-Provence, Mousteyret, Levens, Reveste, Cucuron, etc.
Personal life He resided in a hôtel particulier on the Rue du Bac in Paris. He also resided at the family Hôtel de Valbelle in Aix-en-Provence.André Bouyla d'Arnaud, Évocation du vieil Aix-en-Provence, Paris: Les Éditions de Minuit, Paris 1964 Additionally, he resided at the family castle, Château des Valbelles in Tourves. He had an affair with La Clairon (1723–1803) and bequeathed her 4,000 French livres after his death.Revue de Paris, Bureau de la Revue de Paris, 1834, Volume 6, p. 223
He died of apoplexy on 18 November 1818 in Paris. He was buried in the Chartreuse de Montrieux, a monastery in Méounes-lès-Montrieux.
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