The illegitimate son of Charles Talleyrand; after education in England and serving as aide-de-camp to Napoleon he took refuge in England upon the restoration of the Bourbons. In 1817 he married Margaret Mercer Elphinstone.

REFERENCES TO Auguste Charles Joseph Flahault de la Billardrie:

Walter Scott to J. B. S. Morritt of Rokeby, 2 March 1810 in Memoirs of the Life of Sir Walter Scott, Bart. 7 vols (Edinburgh: Robert Cadell, 1837)

John Whishaw to Thomas Creevey, 10 February 1816 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 24 June 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

John Whishaw to Thomas Smith, 5 July 1817 in The “Pope” of Holland House: Selections from the Correspondence of John Whishaw and his Friends 1813-1840 (London: T. Fisher Unwin, 1906)

Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 14 December 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Thomas Creevey to Elizabeth Ord, 24 December 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Earl of Sefton to Thomas Creevey, 30 December 1833 in The Creevey Papers: A Selection from the Correspondence & Diaries of the late Thomas Creevey, M.P. (London: John Murray, 1903)

Sydney Smith to John Archibald Murray, 6 November 1835 in A Memoir of the Reverend Sydney Smith. By his Daughter, Lady Holland. With a Selection from his Letters, edited by Mrs. Austin 2 vols (London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, 1855)