Count Malaussena
"Gules a tower of gold, surmounted a crowned eagle of sand. "
Family originating Roquesteron.
Claude Alziary, notary, was the father of John (1734), invested with the fief of Malaussena (1) with the title of count, October 26, 1723. Since then, this family has given the country a host of brave soldiers, whose series opens with the brothers Louis, a lieutenant-colonel of infantry and Jean-François (+ 1783), captain of the regiment of Nice and asserts with the latter's son (2), that is to say
1 - Count Joseph who, as captain of engineers, took an active part campaigns in the Alps (1792-1796), and after the Restoration, returned to service with the Corps of Engineers and attains the rank of lieutenant-general (1838), having been appointed to the Board Engineering (1828) and State Councilor Ordinary (1831): he was the only of his generation to have offspring.
2 - Francis, who as lieutenant engineering fought with his brother in the Alps, and captain of the Corps of Engineers after the Restoration (3), reached Then the rank of colonel;
3 - The brothers of the former, Louis, Celestine and Desire, all three captains in the royal army of Sardinia.
The son of General Count Joseph (4):
1 - Clement (1841), was a captain in the brigade Piedmont (1836) and Knight of St. Maurice & Lazarus. ;
2 - John Albert (1849) reached in the Royal Navy Sarde the rank of Commander and was awarded the Knight's Cross of Saints Maurice & Lazarus and St. Stanislaus Russian.
Among the count's son Clement, deserve finally be noted:
1 - Gustave (b. 1833-1866), officer in the Royal Navy in Sardinia and then one of the new Kingdom of Italy. As lieutenant, he won the silver medal for military valor in the campaign of 1860-61, he was for many years, orderly officer of HRH the Duke of Montferrat and decorated with the Knight's Cross of Saints Maurice & ; Lazarus
Médjédié of Ottoman and Officer NichamIftikar Tunisia. Promoted to 33 years, Commander, it was during the War of 1866, the command second flagship Re d'Italia, where he died at Lissa, fighting bravely, earning a second silver medal for military valor (5)
2 - Francis (° 1838 + 1905), Officer of the Legion of Honour and Commander of Order several foreign advisor Prefecture in France, then, for many years, Mayor of Nice was the first Mayor of Nice "attached" to France and has In addition, well deserved of his hometown by his great legacy established by dying for several charities.
(1) The Malaussena stronghold in the valley Massoins has been since the fifteenth century, the house of Grimaldi Beuil
then at the beginning of XVli century he went to Badat and in 1722 he was reunited to the Crown of Sardinia, which the Alziary have acquired.
(2) He married Anne, Corporandi of Auvare Counts, daughter of Andrew Reeve and a Corporandi of Amici Verraillon.
(3) As captain of engineers, he represented the Sardinian government to the demarcation of the border of the Var, between France and Sardinia (1814).
(4) He had married: Appolloni Corvesi Counts of Gorbio.
(5) In remembrance of his death had been given the glorious name Malaussena a small ship of the Royal Italian Navy, the ship which, because of its age, was scratched roles he has only been five or six years. (1906)
state current staff. (1912)
- Francis (6) Alziary Count Malaussena, Deputy Chief Operating Officer of Railways of the Algerian State Algerian network Is. A married Mary, Counts Ceva Massimino di San Michele,
Son: Earl Albert, an engineer for the Arts and Manufactures, husband of Joan Aillaud broken.
Threads: 1 - Paule.
2 - John.
3 - Mary Magdalene.
Cousin: Delphine, the daughter of the late Earl Clement and the late Countess Rossi Fortunée Tondut Peillon, widow of Baron Adolphe Durante.
(6) Son of Captain John Albert and Pauline barons Heraud Châteauneuf)
Source: J. Oreste CATELNUOVO DI, "The Nobility of Nice," Laffitte REPRINT (1912)
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