 His father, a president of the parlement of Paris, who came of the family of the famous president noted below, was guillotined during the Terror.Count Molé's early days were spent in Switzerland and in England with his mother, a relative of Lamoignon-Malesherbes.On his return to France, he studied at the Ecole Centrale des Travaux Publics, and his social education was accomplished in the salon of Pauline de Beaumont, the friend of Châteaubriand and Joubert.