Charles Alexandre de Calonne (20 January 1734 – 30 October 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis...
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Calonne may refer to: Charles Alexandre de Calonne, a French statesman Jacques Calonne, a Belgian artist, musician, and writer Michel Calonne, a French...
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council of finance, and, in 1783, he supported the nomination of Charles Alexandre de Calonne as Controller-General. Vergennes died just before the meeting...
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Louis XVI. D'Abancourt was born in Douai, and was the nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne. He was Louis XVI's last minister of war (July 1792), and organised...
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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine)
the nomination of Charles Alexandre de Calonne, a close friend of the Polignacs, as Controller-General of Finances, and of the Baron de Breteuil as the...
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Louis XVI (redirect from Louis-Auguste de France)
failed miserably, Louis dismissed and replaced him in 1783 with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who increased public spending to "buy" the country's way out...
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Storming of the Bastille (redirect from Comte de Solages)
Alexandre de Calonne, the former finance minister. They settled at Turin, where Calonne, as agent for the count d'Artois and the prince de Condé, began...
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Maximilien de Valicourt and Marie-Madeleine de Calonne, niece of minister Charles-Alexandre de Calonne. Charlotte Marie Joséphine de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys...
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natural hair is extended on the top with an artificial hairpiece. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1784), London, Royal Collection...
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Marie-Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse, 1784. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, 1784. Royal Collection. Baronne de Crussol...
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