Armand Louis de Gontaut (French pronunciation: [aʁmɑ̃ lwi də ɡɔ̃to]), duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French...
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of François Armand de La Rochefoucauld, duc d'Estissac, grand master of the royal wardrobe. One of his cousins was Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld d'Enville...
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Marshal of France. In 1756, the Marquis de Vaudreuil was informed that King Louis XV was sending the Marquis Louis-Joseph de Montcalm to take over French...
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ed. (1911). "Broglie, de s.v. Jacques Victor Albert, Duc de Broglie". Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 4 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 626–628...
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scientist. Jean-Louis-Paul-François de Noailles was the son of Catherine de Cossé-Brissac and Louis, 4th duc de Noailles, a Marshal of France in 1775...
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He was the son of Armand-Louis de Vignerot du Plessis, duc d'Aiguillon (1683–1750) and Anne-Charlotte de Crussol de Florensac and so the grandson of...
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François de La Rochefoucauld VIII, Duc de La Roche-Guyon (1663–1728) Louis-Nicolas, Marquis de Souvré Louis François Marie, Marquis Barbezieux Camille de Louvois...
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de, Duc De La Force (1843). Mémoires authentiques de Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force, maréchal de France, et de ses deux fils, les marquis...
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de Paulmy, marquis d'Argenson, grandson of Louis XV's minister of war. On his grandfather's death in 1804, Victor de Broglie became the third duc de Broglie...
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Charles Auguste Louis Joseph de Morny, 1st Duc de Morny (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl oɡyst lwi ʒozɛf dəmɔʁni]; 15/16 September 1811 – 10 March 1865) was...
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