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    were made into peers, and peerage was exclusively given to duchies (duc et pair). Occasionally the Parlement (Parlement de Paris) refused to register...
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    1742, she married, in his second marriage, Louis de Brancas, duc de Lauraguais, duc et pair de Villars (1714–1793). Not noted for her intelligence, Madame...
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    archevêque-duc pair de France (in Champagne; who crown and anoint the king, traditionally in his cathedral) Two suffragan bishops, styled evêque-duc pair de France :...
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     98. ISBN 0-500-30074-7. Faure, Juliet (2002). L'arsenal de Paris: histoire et chroniques (in French). L'Harmattan. p. 35. Ralph Schor, Histoire du Comté...
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    Spanish forces and, in 1642, was received at the court of Louis XIII as a "duc et pair étranger". The princes of Monaco thus became vassals of the French kings...
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    1766 – 22 August 1793 — The Duchess of Noailles. Christophe Levantal, Ducs et pairs et duchés-pairies laïques à l'époque moderne : (1519-1790), Paris 1996...
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    2021-12-29. Charles de Sainte-Maure, marquis de Montausier, was made duc et pair de France in 1664 and, in 1668, became the governor of the Dauphin. See:...
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    L'Intermédiaire des chercheurs et curieux (in French). 1996. p. 105. Retrieved 3 October 2024. Levantal, Christophe (1996). Ducs et pairs et duchés-pairies laïques...
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    the Collection du Château de La Rochefoucauld Christophe Levantal, Ducs et pairs et duchés-pairies laïques à l'époque moderne (1519-1790), Paris, Maisonneuve...
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  • of the royal bloodline ("princes du sang") and dukes with peerage ("duc et pair"). From 1661 on, Louis XIV reorganized the council and eliminated the...
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