John Sigismund of Redern Henrietta Montpezat.
Redern John Sigismund (1761-1835), born in Berlin and died in Nice, son of Sigismund Ehrenreich Redern and Marie Jeanne Horguelin, wife (1808) Montpezat Henriette (1770-1830) daughter of Timothy Trémolet Jacques, Marquis de Montpezat and Mary Françoise Josephine Trémolet Montpezat.
A Legacy in Lusatia, 1789.
The Redern-Horguelin bought in the 1770s several properties in Lusatia.
the death of Sigismund of Redern in 1789, the property passed by inheritance to John Sigismund and his two sisters, as well as rents on the city hall of Paris, formerly acquired by their grandfather Jacques Horguelin.
John Sigismund took possession of the castle and forges Königsbrück Bernsdorf.
Strongly convinced of the necessity of radical reforms, in 1790 he gave the first example in Saxony, where he owns considerable property, the abolition of serfdom, the purchase of the drudgery and feudal. " (1)
In Paris he made the repayment of debt retirement on the City Hall, through the banker Jean Frederic Perregaux. You can find the trace of these transactions in the archives of the central minute notaries in Paris.
On April 10, 1792, for example, he received the Treasurer pays the debt repayment of an annuity in favor of Marie Jeanne Horguelin (sixteen hundred and sixty four pounds) and an annuity in April 1758 to benefit Jacques d'Horguelin (thirty three thousand and six hundred pounds). (2)
Envoy of the King of Prussia, London, 1790.
After passing by the embassy in Madrid of Saxony, John Sigismund was sent by the king of Prussia in London from 1790 to 1792. In Madrid, he met the French philosopher and economist Claude-Henri de Saint-Simon (1760-1825).
He left London in 1792 and moved to Paris.
"He agreed with Saint-Simon (...) and buy the national property of the whole department of Orne, and some buildings in Paris, including the grand hotel Farms in the street Bouloi.
Terror stops speculation that company. M. Redern is forced to move away from France, and Saint-Simon, who was arrested as a noble, was imprisoned for eleven months in Sainte-Pelagie first, followed by Luxembourg. On 9 Thermidor pays him the freedom and the circumstances we can become more conducive to the successful conclusion of its financial operations.
(...) In 1796, the company Redern and Saint-Simon has a related fund 150,000 francs. " (3)
ironmaster in Normandy, 1806-1818.
In 1806, the shareholders Redern and Saint-Simon split and share acquisitions.
John Sigismund became the owner of the land of Flers, Orne, and forges in the area.
"After the Revolution, a naturalized French noble Prussian acquires property of the former Comte de Flers (de la Mothe-Ango). His name is Count Redern Bernsdorf. This individual
original friend of Saint-Simon, has great economic ambitions. He bought all the big ironworks of the region (Cosse St Patrick's Desert Bagnoles, savagery), but carries the modernization effort on the Varennes (Champsecret, Orne). Yet he complains that iron trading no longer reports and besides, he went bankrupt. The ironworks were sold (1818) to two notaries Parisian Masters Schnetz and Thirion. (4)
Montpezat Henriette, 1770-1830.
"Redern had acquired the castle of Flers in 1806 for the sum of 1,103,000 francs.
In her marriage contract (December 6, 1808) it is also his wife a gift causa mortis of 10,000 francs a year with enjoyment of the castle. " (5)
"Countess Henriette de Montpezat of Redern was a woman of great wit, extreme sensitivity and very attached to the old dynasty. It was published (among others):
"Zelie, queen of the brave, or the genius of the property, and political morality tale followed by a few poems," Paris, 1819, 2 volumes in-12. (6)
Meanwhile, John Sigismund, retired from business, written and published some essays.
"It was him two books full of all the darkness of Germanic philosophizing and that consequently no one reads, to wit:
" accidental modes of our perceptions, or review summary of changes that special circumstances make the pursuit our faculties and perceptions of external objects, "Paris Mongie elder 1818, 8vo, 69 pages.
"Considerations on the nature of man in himself and in his relations with the social order", Paris, Treuttel & Wurtz, 1835, 2 volumes in-8 °. (7)
Montpezat Henrietta died in Nice in 1830 (8)
John Sigismund also died in this city: "Having visited Nice in 1835, he died like so many others that the doctors send to restore their health. " (9)
Original parts
Deposit of proxy by John Sigismund of Redern, Paris, 1790.
"Before advisers and notaries of the King at the Chatelet in Paris undersigned, this was Mr. John Sigismund Ehrenreich of Redern, Envoy of the King of Prussia at the Court of London, currently living in Paris, hotel in Ireland Street Richelieu, St. Roch parish, which filed the original power of attorney (...) given by Eleonore Sophie Charlotte of Stolberg, Countess of Redern born wife of Count Frederick Leopold of Stolberg, the ships of Denmark Court of Berlin, passed in the presence of two witnesses (...) and the notary to Fremsbuttel
(Hesse) October 25, 1720.
National Archives MC/ET/X/798, Gobin study, 29 December 1790.
Refund annuity to John Sigismund of Redern, Paris, 1792.
"In the presence of the notary, Jean Frederic Perregaux, bourgeois of Paris, living rue Mirabeau, the Carmelite parish, on behalf and as attorney for Mr. John Sigismund Ehrenreich Count Redern, according to the proxy (...) passed before Gobin, a notary (...) January 16, 1791.
Acknowledged receipt of Mr. Justin Delisle, Paymaster of the debt discharge of the State and pursuant to the statement of 23 February 1786 and the decree confirming the National Assembly, the sum of thirty three thousand six hundred pounds for the principal repayment of sixteen hundred and eighty francs (...) The first four
hundred eighty pounds (...) in April 1758, consisting of the Proffit Jacques d'Horguelin, by contract passed before Baron, notary in Paris, which has kept the minute (...) Such annuities currently reimbursed
belong auditing S. Redern of (...) ".
National Archives MC/ET/X/801, study Gobin, April 10, 1792.
Reimbursement annuity to John Sigismund of Redern, Paris, 1792.
"In the presence of notaries sousssignés, Jean Frederic Perregaux, bourgeois of Paris, living rue Mirabeau, on behalf and as attorney for Mr. John Sigismund Ehrenreich Count Redern (...)
Acknowledged receipt of Justin Delisle, Paymaster of the public debt (...) the sum of sixteen hundred and sixty four pounds (...) in repayment of (...) established in perpetuity Proffit Horguelin Marie Jeanne, wife of Sigismund Ehrenreich Count Redern before Dulion who kept the minute (...) ".
National Archives MC/ET/X/801, study Gobin, April 10, 1792.
Redern of attorney from Mr. M. Hebert, Paris, 1792.
"By deed executed July 6, 1792 by Count Jean de Redern Sigismund Ehrenreich, Envoy of the King of Prussia at the Court of London, living in Wimpole Street, parish of St. Mary's Good (...) gives power ( Charles Hebert, a lawyer ordinarily residing in Paris, rue Jean-Jacques Rousseau, parish St-Eustache)) to acquire National Areas in France (...) of the property up to the sum of four million pounds tournaments (...) ".
National Archives MC/ET/X/811, study Gobin, July 6, 1792.
Notes
Odile Halbert Note on John Sigismund of Redern, 2006.
"Count Redern, Prussian and former Senior forges Bernsdorf acquires forges Champsecret, Cars, savagery and Cosse. (...)
Evil accepted as staying abroad, Count Redern, who handles the chemistry at Choisy and Kentucky (USA), must flee his creditors in 1818, selling all his possessions. "
O. Halbert, "History of the hardware," WEB page April 30, 2006.
Sale Farms Hotel, Paris 1793.
"The hotel Farms was acquired by Count Redern and the famous Saint-Simon. Count Sigismund Ehrenreich
Redern, son of the grand marshal of the court of Prussia, had been minister of Saxony in Spain and then Prussian minister in England. He came, like many other diplomats secrets of Prussia, at Paris in 1793 (...)
Count Redern and Saint-Simon bought for more than 7 million national property with the help of Danton (...). Robespierre had him imprisoned and sequester these assets. But after 9 Thermidor, they returned to their acquisitions they paid in paper money almost demonetized, and returned to each of them over 200,000 pounds a year (...).
Saint-Simon, as he said himself, abused everything, experienced everything in the brutal and sensual luxury. The Earl of Redern remained owner of the hotel Farms. He drew large profits by the fragmentation and division of this large hotel whose very name has remained, with the memory of Saint-Simon, who is permanently ruined by the car companies public. The Earl of Redern, after a lengthy trial, "said Saint-Simon 1,200 pounds of annuity almost the only resource left to him (...)". Jean-Baptiste
Gapefique, "History of major operations Financial: banks, stock exchanges, loans, industrial companies, etc.. ", Book Editor Amyot, Paris, February 1855.
Sources
(1) Hoeffer, "New General Biography", Paris, 1879, Volume 41, page 825.
(2) Arch. national MC/ET/X/801, study Gobin, 1792.
(3) Hoeffer, Volume 43, page 118.
(4) "A brief look at the history of Varennes, January 16, 2003 web page.
(5) O. Petre-Grenouilleau, "Saint-Simon, Payot, 2001, p. 441.
(6) Michaud, "Universal Biography "Paris, 1843, Volume 35, page 311.
(7) Michaud, volume 35, page 311.
(8) Woelmont, "Genealogical Records", Paris, 1925, page 1012.
(9) Michaud, volume 35, page 311.
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