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father — César de Moré Chaliers, Comte de Pontgibaud — has often informed me that I came into the world on 21st April 1758. My mother, whose maiden name was Marie Charlotte de Salaberry, was, I believe, at that time a young and pretty woman, but I can recollect very little about her, as she died whilst I was still very young, from a shock caused by being suddenly told some bad news.

I derive my family title from the noble old castle in which my father and mother lived.

The château possessed battlements, solid walls, towers I