Comte de Sanois [SEP] native language
Comte de Sanois
Jean-François Joseph Geffrard de La Motte, Comte de Sanois (1723-1799), was a French nobleman and army officer. In his later years his wife committed him unjustly to the Asylum of Charenton under a "lettre de cachet", an incident which because it illustrated the despotic and arbitrary nature of the legal system of the "ancien régime" became a cause célèbre known as the "Affaire Sanois" on the eve of the Revolution, in the course of which the count also became
", vol. 94, 1989
- Maza, Sarah, 1993: "Private Lives and Public Affairs : the Causes Celebres of Pre-Revolutionary France"
- Richard, Hélène-Claire, Caroff, André, 2006: "Le comte de Sanois", Paris, Ed. Paradigme
External links.
- Portrait of Sanois in Museum, Palace of Versailles