Natural son of Honore V .Buried cimetière communal de Fontaine-Française
Louis Gabriel Oscar Grimaldi was born to an unknown father and
mother in Paris, 15 rue Bonaparte, old tenth arrondissement, on 8 June 1814.
A few months after his birth, on 28 November 1814, he was recognised, before Alexandre
Toussaint Delacour, a notary in Paris, by Prince Honoré V of
Monaco, his maternal filiation remaining officially indeterminate, still on the day of his death.
A law degree, lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeal, he then made a career in the French administration: he was attached to the Ministry of the Interior,Litigation Division (1842), deputy head of office at the Finance Division in Algeria (1846), then to the Civil Affairs Directorate in Algiers (1847-1848).
The rest of his career was in the prefectural administration, as sub-prefect of Lille (1853-1856), sub-prefect of Castres (1856-1861), sub-prefect of Chalon sur Saône
(1861-1870), then retired (1870).
His first cousin, Prince Charles III of Monaco, granted him the title in 1860 Marquis des Baux.The French State made him a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1852 and he was promoted to its officer in 1864.
He died without having been married and without leaving posterity, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on July 14, 1894.
Natural son of Honore V .Buried cimetière communal de Fontaine-Française
Louis Gabriel Oscar Grimaldi was born to an unknown father and
mother in Paris, 15 rue Bonaparte, old tenth arrondissement, on 8 June 1814.
A few months after his birth, on 28 November 1814, he was recognised, before Alexandre
Toussaint Delacour, a notary in Paris, by Prince Honoré V of
Monaco, his maternal filiation remaining officially indeterminate, still on the day of his death.
A law degree, lawyer at the Paris Court of Appeal, he then made a career in the French administration: he was attached to the Ministry of the Interior,Litigation Division (1842), deputy head of office at the Finance Division in Algeria (1846), then to the Civil Affairs Directorate in Algiers (1847-1848).
The rest of his career was in the prefectural administration, as sub-prefect of Lille (1853-1856), sub-prefect of Castres (1856-1861), sub-prefect of Chalon sur Saône
(1861-1870), then retired (1870).
His first cousin, Prince Charles III of Monaco, granted him the title in 1860 Marquis des Baux.The French State made him a knight of the Legion of Honor in 1852 and he was promoted to its officer in 1864.
He died without having been married and without leaving posterity, in Saint-Germain-en-Laye, on July 14, 1894.
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