Claude-René Pâris

Claude-René Pâris (18 August 1736, château de la Preuille, Saint-Hilaire-de-Loulay, Vendée - 31 July 1795, Auray, near Vannes) was a French aristocrat and naval officer. He was lord of Preuille and the last count of Soulanges.

He was descended from the family of the lords of Soulanges, a fiefdom near Ancenis in the diocese of Nantes in Britanny. The Pâris family originated either in England or the Flanders plain and gave its name to a château in Basse-Bretagne.

Claude-René was the eldest son of Claude-Louis Pâris, knight and lord of Soulanges, and his wife, Françoise de Gatinaire, daughter of Claude de Gatinaire, lord of Gatinaire, Preville and Marguerite Merisson. His parents had married on 28 May 1728 at the château de la Preuille. Claude-René's brother-in-law was count Charles Jean d'Hector (1722-1808), the pre-revolutionary commander of the French naval force at Brest.

He joined a Gardes de la Marine company at Rochefort in 1751. He was promoted to enseigne de vaisseau in 1755, then lieutenant de vaisseau in 1761. He was made a knight of the ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis in 1762. On 13 August 1755, at the château de Lieuzel, he married Hyacinthe-Gabrielle de Cornouailles de Saint-George (1736 - 11 July 1764).

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