the daughter of Nicolas de Montholon (son of Pierre de Montholon and Marguerite Baron, married on 11 June 1711) and Marguerite Fournier de la Chapelle (daughter of Charles Fournier de la Chapelle and Marie Louise Dureau). Their daughters were: Louise Amable Rion Françoise de Narbonne-Lara (Nice, 25 May 1786 - Lisbon, 28 March 1849), Dame of Honour of Her Majesty Queen Mary II of Portugal (with right to the Grandeeship of Spain for being representative of her paternal uncle the 2e duc de Narbonne-Lara), who married at Agen on 17 February 1806 the Portuguese of Dutch descent Hermano José Braamcamp de Almeida Castelo-Branco, 5th Lord, 2nd Baron, 1st Viscount and 1st Count of Sobral (16 September 1775 - Lisbon, 2 February 1846), and had two daughters Marie Adélaïde Charlotte de Narbonne-Lara (Belleville, 11 May 1790 - Champgrenon, 31 May 1856), who married at Agen on 7 March 1808 Claude-Philibert Barthelot, comte de Rambuteau (Mâcon, 9 November 1781 - Château de Rambuteau, 11 April 1869), and had two daughters Out of wedlock he had by Jeanne Pitrot-Verteil one son: Louis Jean Amalric de Narbonne-Lara, born in Paris, unmarried and without issue And by Louise-Françoise Contat (16 June 1760 – 9 March 1813), actress with the Comédie-Française, one daughter: Louise Amalrique Bathilde Isidore Contat de Narbonne-Lara (Saint Pierre de Chaillot, Paris, 21 September 1788 - ?), who married in Paris on 2 December 1811 Jan Frederik Abbema (born in Amsterdam on 13 June 1773) and had one son: Émile-Léon, vicomte Abbéma, who had an only daughter by his wife Henriette Anne d' Astoin: Louise Abbéma (Étampes, 30 October 1853 - Paris, 4 August 1927), unmarried and without issue Early career He is found in 1785 as a Colonel of the Army and Honorary Chamberlain of Princess Madame Marie Adélaïde of France. In 1786 he was the Commander of an Infantry Regiment, and remained in that post until the evenings of the French Revolution. French Revolution His liberal ideas soon made him be one of the first inscribed in the Club de Valois, where the Duke of Orléans presided. He was afterwards appointed Commander of the National Guard in Franche-Comté. His friendship with Talleyrand brought him an appointment to command a special guard, composed of the most disciplined soldiers of the National Guard of Paris. The comte de Narbonne-Lara always maintained his fidelity towards the King; a true idealist, he hoped for a