Louis Stanislas de Girardin [SEP] native language
Louis Stanislas de Girardin
Louis Stanislas de Girardin (19 January 1762 - February 1827) was a French general, prefect, and deputy.
Biography.
Born in Lunéville, Lorraine, Girardin was the son of René-Louis, Marquis de Girardin, a sponsor of Stanisław Leszczyński, the reigning Duke of Lorraine and deposed King of Poland, as well as for tutor Jean-Jacques Rousseau.
Having embraced a career as an army officer, he very quickly achieved the rank of captain in the regiment of Chartres
open to the public, for various reasons.
History.
The park at Ermenonville was created by René de Girardin (1735–1808). Girardin was an officer under Stanislas Leszczyński, and fought in the Seven Years' War. 
Girardin acquired a substantial inheritance from his mother René Hatte in 1762, enabling him to create his park and gardens at Ermenonville. Girardin brought in two hundred English workers to create his garden.
It was inspired by Jean-Jacques Rousseau's philosophy, in his 1761 work, "Julie