of the Royal Guard. In 1823 he was serving in Spain but he was recalled in 1827 for his opposition to Ferdinand VII's politics of revenge. In 1824 he was made maréchal de camp (major general). In 1829 he was made an inspector-general of infantry. De Castellane was part of the French army sent to secure Belgium's new found independence. In this campaign he commanded the 1st brigade of the 2nd division. He served in the siege of Antwerp in 1832. In 1833 de Castellane was promoted lieutenant-general and given command of the division of the Pyrénées-Orientales and in 1835 of the 21st military division. Appointed a Peer of France in 1837, de Castellane was sent to Algeria as inspector-general. In 1838 he returned to his old post in the Pyrenees. Revolution, Republic and Second Empire In February 1850, de Castellane was given command of the 42nd military division at Bordeaux. To this was added the 44th and 45th divisions centered at Nantes and Rennes. Later that year, he was sent to the 6th military division at Lyon. In January 1852, he was named a senator and governor of Lyon. In December of that year, he was given the dignity of Marshal of France. Personal life In 1813, he married Louise Cordélia Eucharis Greffulhe (1796–1847), the younger sister of French banker and politician Jean-Henry-Louis Greffulhe (father of Henri Greffulhe and Louis-Charles Greffulhe). Together, they were the parents of: Henri de Castellane (1814–1847), who married Pauline de Talleyrand-Périgord (1820–1890), the third child of Edmond de Talleyrand-Périgord and Princess Dorothea of Courland, in 1839. Sophie de Castellane (1818–1904), who married Érasme Henri de Contades, Marquis de Contades (1814–1858), a descendant of Louis Georges Érasme de Contades in 1836. After his death, she married Victor de Beaulaincourt, Comte de Beaulaincourt de Marles (1820–1860) in 1859. Rachel Elisabeth Pauline de Castellane (1823–1895), who married Maximilian Friedrich Karl Franz von Hatzfeldt zu Trachenberg (1813–1859), a son of Franz Ludwig von Hatzfeldt and sister of Sophie von Hatzfeldt, in 1844. After his death, she married Louis de Talleyrand-Périgord, duc de Valençay, 3rd duc de Talleyrand-Périgord (1811–1898), in 1861. Louis, the older brother of Henri's wife Pauline, was the father of Boson de Talleyrand-Périgord from his first marriage to Anne Louise Charlotte de Montmorency. Pierre de Castellane (1824–1883), who married Hedwige Sapia and traveled to Algeria to be a soldier under Patrice de MacMahon during the French