He bought a chateau and adopted the title of viscount. He participated in the Spanish campaign and was present at the capture of Tarragona.Īfter the fall of Napoleon, he succeeded in ingratiating himself with Louis XVIII, who named him Master of Requests. In 1811 Napoleon appointed him as a master ( auditeur) at the Council of State, then as an intendant in the Spanish army. At the age of 29, he married the daughter of a senator, and composed a tragedy, Charlemagne, which was declined by the Théâtre-Français. At the beginning of the First Empire, his mother pleaded his cause before Napoleon, who decided to name him écuyer ("squire") to Madame Mère. His father Louis-Adrien Prévost d'Arlincourt was guillotined on, along with Antoine Lavoisier and 26 other farmers-general. In the 1820s, the popularity of this author, upon whom was bestowed the epithet "the prince of the romantics", rivalled that of Victor Hugo. Charles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt by Robert Lefèvre, 1822Ĭharles-Victor Prévot, vicomte d'Arlincourt (26 September 1788 - 22 January 1856) was a French novelist, born at the Château de Mérantais, Magny-les-Hameaux, Yvelines.
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