Napoléon Joseph Ney
French noble and politician (1803–1857)
Napoléon Joseph Ney (8 May 1803 – 25 July 1857) was a French politician, 2nd Prince de la Moskowa.
Early life
Ney was born in Paris on 8 May 1803. Named for his godfather, Emperor Napoléon I, he was the elder son of Michel Ney, Marshal of the Empire, and his wife, Aglaé Auguié (1782–1854). His younger brothers were Michel Louis Félix, 2nd Duc d'Elchingen, and Eugène Michel Ney (who died unmarried in 1845).
His maternal grandparents were Pierre César Auguié and Adélaïde Henriette Genet (sister of Henriette Campan and Citizen Genêt). His paternal grandparents were Pierre Ney, a master cooper and veteran of the Seven Years' War, and Marguerite Greiveldinger.
Career
In November 1831 he was created a peer of France in a batch of thirty-six lifetime peers.
Personal life
In 1828, he married Albine Étiennette Marguerite Laffitte (1805–1881), the daughter of the banker and politician Jacques Laffitte. Together, they were the parents of:
Albine Marie Napoléone Aglaé Ney (1832-1890), who married Jean Gilbert Victor Fialin, Duke of Persigny in 1852. After his death in 1872, she married Hyacinthe Hilaire Adrien Le Moyne in 1873.
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