thumb|upright|1798 portrait of de Noailles by [[Gilbert Stuart]]

Louis Marie de Noailles (17 April 17567 January 1804) was a French Army officer and politician who served in the American Revolutionary War and French Revolutionary Wars. The second son of Philippe, duc de Mouchy, he was a member of Mouchy branch of the Noailles family of French nobility.

Career

De Noailles was born in Paris. He served under his brother-in-law the Marquis de Lafayette in America during the American War for Independence and was the officer who concluded the capitulation of Yorktown in 1781.

  1. Adrienne Theodore Philippine de Noailles (1778–1781), who died young.

References

Further reading

  • François Furstenberg, When the United States Spoke French: Five Refugees Who Shaped a Nation. New York: Penguin, 2014.