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French nobility

Index French nobility

The French nobility (la noblesse) was a privileged social class in France during the Middle Ages and the Early Modern period to the revolution in 1790. [1]

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Abel Servien

Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin and comte de La Roche des Aubiers (1 November 159317 February 1659) was a French diplomat who served Cardinal Mazarin and signed for the French the Treaty of Westphalia.

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Alexander Roslin

Alexander Roslin (often spelled Alexandre in French; 15 July 1718 – 5 July 1793) was a Swedish portrait painter who worked in Scania, Bayreuth, Paris, Italy, Warsaw and St. Petersburg, primarily for members of aristocratic families.

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Alexandre de Beauharnais

Alexandre François Marie, Viscount of Beauharnais (28 May 1760 – 23 July 1794) was a French political figure and general during the French Revolution.

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Alexandre Dumas

Alexandre Dumas (born Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie; 24 July 1802 – 5 December 1870), also known as Alexandre Dumas, père ("father"), was a French writer.

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Alexandre Rousselin de Saint-Albin

Alexander Charles Omer Rousselin de Corbeau, comte de Saint Albin (17731847) was a French politician.

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Amador Báez de Alpoim, General

Amador Báez de Alpoim (1602-1652) was a Spanish army officer and politician.

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Ancien Régime

The Ancien Régime (French for "old regime") was the political and social system of the Kingdom of France from the Late Middle Ages (circa 15th century) until 1789, when hereditary monarchy and the feudal system of French nobility were abolished by the.

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Anne Chabanceau de La Barre

Anne Chabanceau de La Barre (1628–1688) was a French soprano of the baroque era.

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Antoine d'Arces

Antoine d'Arcy, sieur de la Bastie-sur-Meylan and of Lissieu, (d. 18 September 1517) was a French nobleman involved in the government of Scotland.

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Antoine de Sartine

Antoine Raymond Jean Gualbert Gabriel de Sartine, comte d'Alby (12 July 1729 – 7 September 1801) was a French statesman who served as Lieutenant General of Police of Paris (1759–1774) during the reign of Louis XV and as Secretary of State for the Navy (1774–1780) under King Louis XVI.

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Antoine Isaac Silvestre de Sacy

Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (21 September 175821 February 1838), was a French nobleman, linguist and orientalist.

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Antoine Lavoisier

Antoine-Laurent de Lavoisier (also Antoine Lavoisier after the French Revolution;; 26 August 17438 May 1794) CNRS (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique) was a French nobleman and chemist who was central to the 18th-century chemical revolution and who had a large influence on both the history of chemistry and the history of biology.

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Antoine Philippe de La Trémoille

Antoine Philippe de La Trémoïlle, Prince of Talmont (27 September 1765 in Paris - 27 January 1794 in Laval) was a French noble and royalist notable for his military involvement against the French Revolution.

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Antoinette Saint-Huberty

Anne-Antoinette-Cécile Clavel, better known by her stage name Madame Saint-Huberty or Saint-Huberti (Strasbourg, 15 December 1756 - 22 July 1812, Barnes, London) was a celebrated French operatic soprano whose career extended from c.1774 until 1790.

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Apostolici (sects)

Apostolici, Apostolic Brethren, or Apostles, are the names given to various Christian heretics, whose common doctrinal feature was an ascetic rigidity of morals, which made them reject property and marriage.

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Armand de Kersaint

Armand-Guy-Simon de Coetnempren, comte de Kersaint, in short Armand de Kersaint (29 July 17424 December 1793), was a French sailor and politician.

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Armand Louis de Gontaut

Armand Louis de Gontaut, Duc de Lauzun, later duc de Biron, and usually referred to by historians of the French Revolution simply as Biron (13 April 174731 December 1793) was a French soldier and politician, known for the part he played in the American War of Independence and the French Revolutionary Wars.

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Armand, duc d'Aiguillon

Armand-Désiré de Vignerot du Plessis-Richelieu, duc d'Aiguillon (31 October 1761 – 4 May 1800), was a French military officer and politician.

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Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt

Arnail François, marquis de Jaucourt, comte de l'Empire (14 November 17575 February 1852) was a French aristocrat and politician.

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Arnouph Deshayes de Cambronne

Arnouph Louis Joseph Deshayes de Cambronne (or Arnould or Arnoult) (born March 26, 1768 in Crépy-en-Valois, Oise - died in 1846) was a former governor of the Château de Compiègne and the major adjudant of the National Guard (France).

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Artemy Tereshchenko

Artemy Yakovlevich Tereshchenko (Арте́мий Я́ковлевич Тере́щенко; Арте́м Я́кович Тере́щенко; 1794 – 1873) was the first entrepreneur in Tereshchenko family and the founder of the Tereshchenko dynasty, which is in the list of the most wealthiest families in the world.

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Arthur de Gobineau

Count Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known today for helping to legitimise racism by use of scientific racist theory and "racial demography" and for his developing the theory of the Aryan master race.

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Assassin's Creed Unity

Assassin's Creed Unity is an action-adventure video game developed by Ubisoft Montreal and published by Ubisoft.

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Assembly of Notables

An Assembly of Notables (French: Assemblée des notables) was a group of high-ranking nobles, ecclesiastics, and state functionaries convened by the King of France on extraordinary occasions to consult on matters of state.

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Aubert (noble family)

Aubert or d'Aubert is a family of the French nobility, and a branch belongs also to the Nobility of Denmark and to the Nobility of Norway.

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Autograph

Autograph is a famous person's artistic signature.

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Ayumi Hamasaki

is a Japanese recording artist, record producer, actress, model, spokesperson and entrepreneur.

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À rebours

À rebours (translated Against Nature or Against the Grain) (1884) is a novel by the French writer Joris-Karl Huysmans.

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École spéciale militaire de Saint-Cyr

The École Spéciale Militaire de Saint-Cyr (ESM, literally the "Special Military School of Saint-Cyr") is the foremost French military academy.

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Élie, duc Decazes

Élie-Louis, 1st Duke of Decazes and Glücksburg (born Élie-Louis Decazes; 28 September 1780 – 24 October 1860) was a French statesman, leader of the liberal Doctrinaires party during the Bourbon Restoration.

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Émile Coué

Émile Coué de la Châtaigneraie (26 February 1857 – 2 July 1926) was a French psychologist and pharmacist who introduced a popular method of psychotherapy and self-improvement based on optimistic autosuggestion.

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Île Vierge

Île Vierge (Breton language: Enez-Werc'h) is a islet lying off the north-west coast of Brittany, opposite the village of Lilia.

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Bailiff

A bailiff (from Middle English baillif, Old French baillis, bail "custody, charge, office"; cf. bail, based on the adjectival form, baiulivus, of Latin bajulus, carrier, manager) is a manager, overseer or custodian; a legal officer to whom some degree of authority or jurisdiction is given.

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Battle of Pontvallain

The Battle of Pontvallain was fought on 4 December 1370 in the Sarthe region during the Hundred Years' War.

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Beauharnais

Beauharnais (or Leuchtenberg) is a French noble family.

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Bernard du Bec

Bernard du Bec (died May 8, 1149), also known as Bernard le Vénérable, was a Benedictine monk who served as the thirteenth abbot of Mont Saint-Michel.

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Bourgeoisie

The bourgeoisie is a polysemous French term that can mean.

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Brézé (surname)

Brézé was the name of a noble Angevin family.

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Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella

"Bring a Torch, Jeanette, Isabella" (Un flambeau, Jeannette, Isabelle) is a Christmas carol which originated from the Provence region of France in the 17th century.

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Bruno, Count of Harcourt

Marie Hervé Jean Bruno d'Harcourt, Comte d'Harcourt, Count of Harcourt (20 September 1899 – 19 April 1930) was a member of the French nobility and a Grand Prix motor racing driver.

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Camille Desmoulins

Lucie-Simplice-Camille-Benoît Desmoulins (2 March 17605 April 1794) was a journalist and politician who played an important role in the French Revolution.

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Camillo Ruspoli, 2nd Prince of Candriano

Camillo dei Principi Ruspoli (Rome, January 10, 1882 – Havana, September 5, 1949), was the 2nd and last Principe di Candriano, son of Emanuele Ruspoli, 1st Prince of Poggio Suasa, and second wife Laura Caracciolo dei Principi di Torella, Duchi di Lavello, Marchesi di Bella.

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Canadian peers and baronets

Canadian peers and baronets exist in both the peerage of France recognized by the monarch of Canada (the same as the monarch of the United Kingdom) and the peerage of the United Kingdom.

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Capitoul

The capitouls, sometimes anglicized as capitols, were the chief magistrates of the commune of Toulouse, France, during the late Middle Ages and early Modern period.

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Capt. Charles Schreiner Mansion

The Capt.

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Caroline, Princess of Hanover

Caroline, Princess of Hanover (Caroline Louise Marguerite Grimaldi; born January 23, 1957), is the eldest child of Rainier III, Prince of Monaco, and Princess Grace of Monaco formerly known as American actress Grace Kelly.

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Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon

Catherine-Dominique de Pérignon, 1st Marquis de Grenade (31 May 1754 – 25 December 1818) was Marshal of France.

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Catholic League (French)

The Catholic League of France (Ligue catholique), sometimes referred to by contemporary (and modern) Catholics as the Holy League (La Sainte Ligue), was a major participant in the French Wars of Religion.

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Causes of the French Revolution

The causes of the French Revolution can be attributed to several intertwining factors.

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Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just

Baron Charles de Biencourt de Saint-Just (1591 or 1592, Champagne, France – 1623 or 1624, Port-Royal of what was then Acadia, New France) was a member of the French nobility and military officer.

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Charles de Menou d'Aulnay

Charles de Menou d'Aulnay (c. 1604–1650) was a pioneer of European settlement in North America and Governor of Acadia (1635–1650).

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Charles Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond

Charles Henry Gordon-Lennox, 7th Duke of Richmond and Lennox, 2nd Duke of Gordon, (27 December 1845 – 18 January 1928), 7th Duke of Aubigny (French peerage in the French nobility), styled Lord Settrington until 1860 and Earl of March between 1860 and 1903, was a British politician and peer.

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Charles Louis Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville

Charles Louis Bernard de Cléron, comte d'Haussonville (1770–1846) was a French aristocrat and political figure, the father of Joseph d'Haussonville.

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Charles Schreiner (Texas rancher)

Charles Armand Schreiner Sr. (February 22, 1838 – February 9, 1927), was a cattle and sheep rancher, merchant, banker, politician, and philanthropist from his adopted city of Kerrville in the Texas Hill Country.

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Charles V of France

Charles V (21 January 1338 – 16 September 1380), called "the Wise" (le Sage; Sapiens), was a monarch of the House of Valois who ruled as King of France from 1364 to his death.

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Charles, marquis de Villette

Charles Michel, Marquis de Villette (4 December 1736 – 7 July 1793) was a French writer and politician.

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Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse

Charles-Alexandre Coëssin de la Fosse (1829–1910) was a French neoclassisist painter and engraver.

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Charles-François Lebrun, duc de Plaisance

Charles-François Lebrun, 1st duc de Plaisance (19 March 1739 – 16 June 1824), was a French statesman who served as Third Consul of the French Republic and was later created Arch-Treasurer and Prince of the Empire by Napoleon I.

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Chevalier Paul

Jean-Paul de Saumeur (off Marseille, 1598 — Toulon, 20 December 1667), often called Chevalier Paul was a French admiral who served in several Mediterranean campaigns.

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Chief minister of France

The chief minister of France or, closer to the French term, chief minister of state (principal ministre d'État), or prime minister of France were and are informal titles given to various personages who received various degrees of power to rule the Kingdom of France on behalf of the monarch during the Ancien Régime ("Old Regime").

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Christian de Portzamparc

Christian de Portzamparc (born 5 May 1944) is a French architect and urbanist.

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Ci-devant

In post-Revolutionary France, ci-devant nobility were those nobles who refused to be reconstituted into the new social order or to accept any of the political, cultural, and social changes brought about in France by the French Revolution.

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Cire Trudon

Cire Trudon is a French candlemaker and the oldest wax-producing factory worldwide.

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Clément-Charles Sabrevois de Bleury

Lt.-Colonel The Hon.

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College of Juilly

The College of Juilly (French: Collège de Juilly) is a Catholic private teaching establishment located in the commune of Juilly, in Seine-et-Marne (France).

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Conseiller d'État (France)

A French Councillor of State (French: conseiller d'État) is a high-level government official of administrative law in the Council of State of France.

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Coronet

In English, a coronet is a small crown consisting of ornaments fixed on a metal ring.

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Count Karl Ludwig von Ficquelmont

Karl Ludwig, Count of Ficquelmont (Charles-Louis comte de Ficquelmont; March 23, 1777 – April 7, 1857) was an Austrian aristocrat, statesman and Field marshal of the Austrian Imperial army of French noble origin.

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Count of Castres

The Count of Castres was a title in the French nobility.

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Count of Diois

Count of Diois / Dyois is a title of nobility, originally in French peerage.

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Count of Pardiac

The Count of Pardiac was a title in the French nobility.

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Counts of Clermont-Tonnerre

Clermont-Tonnerre is the name of a French noble family, members of which played some part in the history of France, especially in Dauphiné, from about 1100 to the French Revolution (1789–99).

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Croatian nobility

Croatian nobility (lit; la noblesse) was a privileged social class in Croatia during the Antiquity and Medieval periods of the country's history.

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Dame d'atour

Dame d'atour was an office at the royal court of France.

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Descendants of Henry IV of France

Henry IV of France was the first Bourbon king of France.

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Du Pont family

The Du Pont family is an American family descended from Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (1739–1817).

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Duc de Beaumont

Duc de Beaumont was a French Duke (though not a peerage) created by Letters Patent in 1765.

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Duc de Châtillon

Duc de Châtillon was a French noble title.

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Duc de La Rochefoucauld

The title of Duke de La Rochefoucauld was a French peerage belonging to one of the most famous families of the French nobility, whose origins go back to lord Rochefoucauld in Charente in the 10th and 11th centuries (with official evidence of nobility in 1019).

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Duchy of La Vallière

The Duchy of La Vallière (duché de La Vallière) was a noble French title created on 13 May 1667 by Louis XIV for his one time mistress Louise Françoise de La Baume Le Blanc.

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Duke of Aiguillon

Duke of Aiguillon (French: duc d'Aiguillon) was a title of French nobility in the peerage of France, first created in 1599 by Henry IV of France for Charles, Duke of Mayenne.

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Duke of Albret

Duke of Albret (Duc d'Albret) was a title in the French nobility.

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Duke of Brissac

Duke of Brissac is a title of French nobility in the Peerage of France, which was created in 1611 for Charles II de Cossé.

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Duke of Chaulnes

The title of Duke of Chaulnes (Duc de Chaulnes), a French peerage, is held by the d'Albert family beginning in 1621.

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Duke of Châtellerault

Duke of Châtellerault (duc de Châtellerault) is a French noble title that has been created several times, originally in the Peerage of France in 1515.

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Duke of Decazes

Duke of Decazes, also called Duke Decazes, is a title of French nobility that was granted in 1820 to Élie Decazes, a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from November 19, 1819 to February 20, 1820.

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Duke of Estouteville

Duke of Estouteville (duc d'Estouteville) was a title in the French nobility that is claimed today by the Prince of Monaco.

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Duke of Fronsac

Duke of Fronsac (French: duc de Fronsac) was a title of French nobility, first created by promoting the seigneurie of Fronsac to a duchy in 1608, but the title became extinct a few decades later.

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Duke of Gramont

The title of Duke of Gramont (duc de Gramont) was a prominent dukedom and peerage in the French nobility.

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Duke of Hamilton

Duke of Hamilton is a title in the Peerage of Scotland, created in 1643.

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Duke of Longueville

Duke of Longueville (Longueville-sur-Scie) was a title of French nobility, though not a peerage of France.

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Duke of Otranto

Duke of Otranto (Duc d'Otrante) is a hereditary title in the nobility of the First French Empire which was bestowed in 1809 by Emperor Napoleon I upon Joseph Fouché (1759-1820), a French statesman and Minister of Police.

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Duke of Polignac

The title of Duke of Polignac (French: Duc de Polignac) is a French dukedom that is held by the Polignac family.

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Duke of Richelieu

Duke of Richelieu was a title of French nobility.

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Duke of Rohan

Duke of Rohan is a title of French nobility, associated with the Breton region of Rohan.

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Dukes in France

The title of Duke was the highest title in the French nobility during the time of the monarchy in France.

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Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé

Edmond Louis Alexis Dubois-Crancé (14 October 1747 – 28 June 1814) was a French soldier and politician.

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Elizabeth Sarancheva

Elizabeth Sarancheva also known as Elizabeth Tereshchenko (Елизавéта Михáйловна Саранчëва; Єлизавéта Михáйлівна Саранчéва) was a daughter of Lieutenant general Mikhail Andreievich Saranchev, Ivan Tereshchenko wife, mother of Mikhail Tereshchenkohttp://spartacus-educational.com/RUS-Mikhail_Tereshchenko.htm| and famous Tereshchenko dynasty's women philanthropist and mecenas.

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Emilio Drake, 1st Marquess of Cañada Honda

Emilio María Juan Crisostomo Drake y de la Cerda, 1st Marquess of Cañada Honda, OIC, RMCS, MP (27 January 1855 – 2 July 1915), was a Spanish aristocrat and politician, member of the Congress of Deputies as well as senator for the province of Puerto Rico, a Spanish colony at the time.

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Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just

Emmanuel Marie Michel Philippe Fréteau de Saint-Just (28 March 1745 – 14 June 1794) was a French nobleman and an elected representative of the Second Estate during the French Revolution.

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Emmerich Joseph de Dalberg

Emmerich Joseph Wolfgang Heribert de Dalberg, 1st Duke of Dalberg (31 May 1773 – 27 April 1833) was a German diplomat who was elevated to the French nobility in the Napoleonic era and who held senior government positions during the Bourbon Restoration.

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Enguerrand VI, Lord of Coucy

Enguerrand VI (—) was a French nobleman who served as the Seigneur Lord of Coucy.

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Ernle

Ernle was the surname of an English gentry or landed family descended from the lords of the manor of Earnley in Sussex who derived their surname from the name of the place where their estates lay.

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Estates General (France)

In France under the Old Regime, the Estates General (French: États généraux) or States-General was a legislative and consultative assembly (see The Estates) of the different classes (or estates) of French subjects.

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Estates of Béarn

The Estates of Béarn are the former Provincial Estates of Béarn.

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Estates of Navarre

The Estates of Navarre (French: États de Navarre, États généraux de Navarre, Cortes de Navarre)Orpustan (n.d.), p. 9 were created in 1317 under Philip II.

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Estates of the realm

The estates of the realm, or three estates, were the broad orders of social hierarchy used in Christendom (Christian Europe) from the medieval period to early modern Europe.

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Flageolet

The flageolet is a woodwind instrument and a member of the fipple flute family.

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Forcade

Forcade (de), also written Fourcade (de), Forcada (de), Forquade (de), Forquada (de), Forcade (de la), Fourcade (de la), Laforcade (de) and Lafourcade (de) belongs to the nobility of GuyenneChaix d'Est-Ange (1922), Tome 18, p. 310 and Gascony,Chaix d'Est-Ange (1922), Tome 18, p. 313 in France, and of the Kingdom of Prussia.

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Fourcade

Fourcade may refer to.

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François Barbé-Marbois

François Barbé-Marbois, marquis de Barbé-Marbois (31 January 1745 – 12 February 1837) was a French politician.

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François d'Amboise

François d'Amboise (1550 – 1619) was a French jurist and writer.

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François de Charette

François Athanase de Charette de la Contrie (2 May 1763 – 26 March 1796) was a French Royalist soldier and politician.

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François de Nicolay

Count François de Nicolay (31 August 1919 - 21 November 1963) was a member of the House of Nicolay in France who was a farm manager, arboriculturist, and a politician who was elected to the Senate of France.

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François-Henri de Virieu

François-Henri de Virieu, marquis de Virieu (18 December 1931 – 27 October 1997) was a French journalist and television presenter.

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François-Marie, marquis de Barthélemy

François-Marie, Marquess of Barthélemy (20 October 1747, Aubagne3 April 1830 Paris) was a French politician and diplomat, active at the time of the French Revolution.

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François-Noël Babeuf

François-Noël Babeuf (23 November 1760 – 27 May 1797), known as Gracchus Babeuf, was a French political agitator and journalist of the French Revolutionary period.

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Françoise de Graffigny

Françoise de Graffigny, née d'Issembourg Du Buisson d'Happoncourt (11 February 1695 - 12 December 1758), was a French novelist, playwright and salon hostess.

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France

France, officially the French Republic (République française), is a sovereign state whose territory consists of metropolitan France in Western Europe, as well as several overseas regions and territories.

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Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

Frédéric Gaëtan, marquis de La Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (1779–1863), the third son of François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt, was a French nobleman who, during Napoléon's brief 1815 return to power, fled to Switzerland and tried to organise a volunteer army in support of the restored French monarchy of Louis XVIII.

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French colonization of Texas

The French colonization of Texas began with the establishment of a fort in present-day southeastern Texas.

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French Constitution of 1848

The Constitution of 1848 is the constitution passed in France on 4 November 1848 by the National Assembly, the constituent body of the Second French Republic.

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French Navy

The French Navy (Marine Nationale), informally "La Royale", is the maritime arm of the French Armed Forces.

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Fronde

The Fronde was a series of civil wars in France between 1648 and 1653, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War, which had begun in 1635.

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Gameplay of Pokémon

The gameplay of the ''Pokémon'' video game series involves the catching and training of a variety of fictional creatures called "Pokémon" and using them to battle other Trainers.

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Gaspard de Gueidan

Gaspard de Gueidan (de Valabre) (1688-1767) was a French aristocrat and lawyer.

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Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (military engineer)

Gaspard-Joseph Chaussegros de Léry (October 3, 1682 – March 23, 1756), was Louis XV's Chief Engineer of New France.

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Gérard de Lally-Tollendal

Trophime-Gérard, marquis de Lally-Tollendal (5 March 1751 – 11 March 1830) was a French politician.

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Geneall

Geneall.net is a free-to-use public internet database on family history and genealogy, mainly concerning Royalty and Aristocracy around the world.

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Gentleman

In modern parlance, a gentleman (from gentle + man, translating the Old French gentilz hom) is any man of good, courteous conduct.

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Geoffrey of Sergines

Geoffrey of Sergines, sometimes known as Geoffroy of Sargines (c. 1205 – April 1269), was a French knight who served as seneschal and regent of the Kingdom of Jerusalem.

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Ghislaine de Polignac

Princess Ghislaine de Polignac (5 September 1918 – January 2011) was a prominent member of Paris society, bon vivant, fashion stylist and promoter, and author.

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Giacomo Leoni

Giacomo Leoni (1686 – 8 June 1746), also known as James Leoni, was an Italian architect, born in Venice.

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Glossary of the French Revolution

This is a glossary of the French Revolution.

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Governess of the Children of France

The Governess of the Children of France (sometimes the Governess of the Royal Children) was office at the royal French court during the Pre-Revolutionary France and the Bourbon Restoration.

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Governor

A governor is, in most cases, a public official with the power to govern the executive branch of a non-sovereign or sub-national level of government, ranking under the head of state.

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Grand Master of France

The Grand Master of France (French: Grand Maître de France) was, during the Ancien Régime and Bourbon Restoration in France, one of the Great Officers of the Crown of France and head of the "Maison du Roi", the king's royal household.

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Grandee

Grandee (Grande,; Grande) is an official aristocratic title conferred on some Spanish nobility and, to a lesser extent, Portuguese nobility.

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Guillaume de Ferrières

Guillaume de Ferrières, Vidame de Chartres (c.1150 – ?April 1204) was a French nobleman, probably the same person as the trouvère whose works are recorded only as by the Vidame de Chartres, his title.

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Guy I of Clermont

Guy I of Clermont-Nesle (c. 1255 – July 11, 1302) was a Marshal of France, Seigneur (Lord) of Offemont jure uxoris, and possibly of Ailly, Maulette and Breteuil.

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Hôtel d'Angoulême Lamoignon

The Hôtel d'Angoulême Lamoignon or Hôtel de Lamoignon is a late 16th-century hôtel particulier, or grand townhouse, in the Marais district of the 4th arrondissement of Paris, France.

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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901), also known as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, caricaturist, and illustrator whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of Paris in the late 19th century allowed him to produce a collection of enticing, elegant, and provocative images of the modern, sometimes decadent, affairs of those times.

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Henri Grégoire

Henri Jean-Baptiste Grégoire (4 December 1750 – 28 May 1831), often referred to as Abbé Grégoire, was a French Roman Catholic priest, constitutional bishop of Blois and a revolutionary leader.

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Henri-César de Castellane-Majastre

Henri-César de Castellane-Majastre (1733-1789) was a French aristocrat, landowner and sailor.

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Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour du Pin Gouvernet

Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet (25 February 1770, Paris – 2 April 1853, Pisa), (also known as Lucie), was a French aristocrat famous for her posthumously published memoirs entitled Journal d'une femme de 50 ans.

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Henry de La Falaise

Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye (born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise, February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.

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Henry du Moulin de Labarthète

Henry du Moulin de Labarthète (1900-1948) was a French senior civil servant, tax auditor, diplomat and memoirist.

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Henry III of France

Henry III (19 September 1551 – 2 August 1589; born Alexandre Édouard de France, Henryk Walezy, Henrikas Valua) was King of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth from 1573 to 1575 and King of France from 1574 until his death.

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Hereditary title

Hereditary titles, in a general sense, are titles of nobility, positions or styles that are hereditary and thus tend or are bound to remain in particular families.

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History of serfdom

Like slavery, serfdom has a long history, dating to the Ancient Times.

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Hospitaller colonization of the Americas

The Hospitaller colonization of the Americas occurred during a 14-year period in which the Knights Hospitaller (also known as the Knights of St. John or the Knights of Malta) possessed four Caribbean islands: Saint Christopher, Saint Martin, Saint Barthélemy, and Saint Croix.

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House of Baux

The House of Baux is a French noble family from the south of France.

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House of Laval

The House of Laval is a family of barons, later counts, coming from the town of Laval, located in Northwestern France, part of the province of Maine before the French Revolution.

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House of Rohan

The House of Rohan (Roc'han) is a Breton family of viscounts, later dukes and princes in the French nobility, coming from the locality of Rohan in Brittany.

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House of Rougé

The de Rougé family whose former name was des Rues is a family of the French nobility from Anjou, dating back to the 14th century.

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House of Talleyrand-Périgord

The House of Talleyrand-Périgord was a French noble house.

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Huguenots

Huguenots (Les huguenots) are an ethnoreligious group of French Protestants who follow the Reformed tradition.

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Hugues du Perche

Hugues du Perche was a 10th-century French noble.

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In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy

In the Reign of Terror: The Adventures of a Westminster Boy is a novel by G. A. Henty published in 1888.

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Intendant

The title of intendant (intendant, Portuguese and intendente) has been used in several countries through history.

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Invasion of Martinique (1674)

The Invasion of Martinique in 1674 was an unsuccessful attempt by the Dutch Republic to conquer the Caribbean island of Martinique from France.

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Isaac de Razilly

Isaac de Razilly (1587 – 1635) was a member of the French nobility appointed a knight of the Order of St. John of Jerusalem at the age of 18.

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Island of Montreal

The Island of Montreal (Kanien’kéha: Tiohtià:ke), in southwestern Quebec, Canada, is at the confluence of the Saint Lawrence and Ottawa rivers.

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Isle of Demons

The Isle of Demons is a phantom island once associated with Quirpon Island, Newfoundland, in Canada.

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Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès

Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (February 1, 1758 – November 24, 1805) was a French orator and politician.

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Jacques Cathelineau

Jacques Cathelineau, Generalissimo of the Catholic and Royal Army (5 January 1759 – 14 July 1793) was a French Vendéan insurrection leader during the French Revolution.

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Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie

Jacques Gervais, baron Subervie (1 September 1776, Lectoure, Gers – 10 March 1856) was a French general and politician.

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Jacques Natteau

Jacques Natteau (15 November 1920 – 17 April 2007) was a French director of photography born in Istanbul, Turkey.

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Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne

Jacques Nicolas Billaud-Varenne (23 April 17563 June 1819), also known as Jean Nicolas, was a French personality of the Revolutionary period.

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Jérôme Souchier

Jérôme Souchier (1508–1571) was a French Roman Catholic cardinal.

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Jean Antoine d'Averhoult

Jean Antoine d'Averhoult, baptized as Jan Anthony d'Averhoult (21 October 1756 in Utrecht – 26 August 1792 in Sedan) was a Dutch military officer and politician of French Huguenot extraction, who played a leading role in both the Patriottentijd and the French Revolution.

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Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas

Jean Bilhères de Lagraulas or Jean Villier de la Grolaie, or Groslaye etc., also called the Cardinal of Saint-Denis (died 1499), was a French Roman Catholic abbot, bishop and from 1493 cardinal.

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Jean d'Arces

Jean d'Arces (1370s–1454) (called the Cardinal of Tarentaise) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

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Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just

Jean de Biencourt de Poutrincourt et de Saint-Just (Jean Biencourt, Baron of Poutrincourt and Saint-Just) (1557–1615) was a member of the French nobility best remembered as a commander of the French colonial empire, one of those responsible for establishing the most successful among early attempts to establish a permanent settlement in the North American territory that became known as Acadia, a region of New France.

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Jean de Forcade, Seigneur de Biaix

Jean de Forcade, (* before 1635, presumably in Boeil, Béarn; † 9 November 1684, Pau, Béarn), was a Fermier des monnaies de Béarn et NavarreChaix d'Est-Ange, Tome 18, Page 315 Charlet & Arbez, Pages 223-264.

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Jean de Grouchy

For the French musical theorist, see Johannes de Grocheio Jean de Grouchy (born in 1354, died on 4 November 1435 at Harfleur), was a Norman knight, the Sieur de Montérolier.

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Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte

Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte, aka Jean Laforcade, Seigneur de Lafitte,AD32, B 20, 1584, f° 14, v° (in French) aka Jean Lafourcade,AD32, B 6, 1556-1557, f° 99 (in French) aka Jean II.

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Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte-Juson

Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte-Juson, aka Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte-SuzonEtcheverry, p. 6 (sic), aka Jean de La Forcade,Haag, La France Protestante, Tome V, p. 304 Haag, La France Protestante, Tome VII, p. 532 aka Jean de La Fourcade, aka Jean de la Fourcade, aka Jean de Lafourcade,AD64, E 2002AD64, B 3084 aka Jean de Laforcade,AD64, C 1542AD64, E 2012AD64, E 2015AD64, E 2022AD64, 1 J 298/2 aka Jean de Fourcade (* About 1555, presumably in Auvillar; † about 1639, in hamlet of Montclaris, in Sigalens, Gascony), was the son of Protestant nobleman Jean de Laforcade, Seigneur de La Fitte, and a descendant of the noble family of Forcade of Béarn in Navarre.

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Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais

200px Jean Denis, comte Lanjuinais (12 March 175313 January 1827), was a French politician, lawyer, jurist, journalist, and historian.

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Jean Gabriel Maurice Rocques

Jean Gabriel Maurice Rocques, comte de Montgaillard (November 16, 1761 – February 8, 1841) was a French political agent of the Revolution and First Empire era.

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Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès

Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duc de Parme (18 October 17538 March 1824), was a French nobleman, lawyer and statesman during the French Revolution and the First Empire.

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Jean-Baptiste de Croÿ

Jean-Baptiste François de Croÿ (1686–1727) was a French nobleman of the House of Croÿ and the 5th Duke of Havré.

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Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau

Marshal Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau (1 July 1725 – 10 May 1807) was a French nobleman and general who played a major role in helping the Thirteen Colonies win independence during the American Revolution.

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Jean-Charles Pichegru

Jean-Charles Pichegru (16 February 1761 – 5 April 1804) was a distinguished French general of the Revolutionary Wars.

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Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville

Jean-Guillaume, baron Hyde de Neuville (24 January 177628 May 1857) was a French aristocrat, diplomat, and politician.

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Jean-Pierre, Count of Montalivet

Jean-Pierre Bachasson, Seigneur et 1er Comte de Montalivet (Neunkirch, now part of Sarreguemines, Moselle, 5 July 1766 – Château de Lagrange, Cher, 22 January 1823) was a French statesman and Peer of France.

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Jean-Pierre-André Amar

Jean-Pierre-André Amar or Jean-Baptiste-André Amar (May 11, 1755 – December 21, 1816) was a French political figure of the Revolution and Freemason.

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John I of Chalon-Arlay

Jean I of Chalon-Arlay (1258–1315) was a French nobleman.

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John II, Count of Saarbrücken

Not to be confounded with his uncle John II of Saarbrücken-Commercy (fr) John II of Saarbrücken, Jean II de Sarrebruck, Johann II von Saarbrücken (circa 1310 – 11 March 1381).

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Joseph Bailly

Joseph Bailly (7 April 1774 – 21 December 1835) was a fur trader and a member of an important French Canadian family that included his uncle, Charles-François Bailly de Messein.

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Joseph Fouché

Joseph Fouché, 1st Duc d'Otrante, 1st Comte Fouché (21 May 1759 – 25 December 1820) was a French statesman and Minister of Police under First Consul Bonaparte, who later became Emperor Napoleon.

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Joseph-Alexandre Pierre de Ségur, Viscount of Ségur

Joseph Alexandre Pierre, vicomte de Ségur (14 April 1756 - 27 July 1805) was a French poet, songwriter and playwright.

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Joseph-Geneviève de Puisaye

Joseph-Geneviève, comte de Puisaye (6 March 1755 – 13 September 1827) was a minor French nobleman who fought as a counter-revolutionary during the French Revolution, leading two unsuccessful invasions from England.

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Julie du Page

Julie Pichard du Page (born 6 October 1973) is a Canadian actress and model.

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Khazen

Khazen (also "El-Khazen", and in some cases Al Khazen or De Khazen, Arabic: الخازن) is the name of a prominent noble Levantine family and clan based in Keserwan District, Lebanon, Damascus, Syria, Nablus, Palestine, as well as other districts around the Levant, predominantly in the Galilee.

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Kingdom of France

The Kingdom of France (Royaume de France) was a medieval and early modern monarchy in Western Europe.

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L'Age d'Or

L'Age d'Or (L'Âge d'Or), commonly translated as The Golden Age or Age of Gold, is a 1930 French surrealist satirical comedy film directed by Luis Buñuel about the insanities of modern life, the hypocrisy of the sexual mores of bourgeois society and the value system of the Roman Catholic Church.

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La Révolution Française (rock opera)

La Révolution Française is a French rock opera by Claude-Michel Schönberg and Raymond Jeannot, book by Alain Boublil and Jean-Max Rivière, created in 1973.

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Laetitia d'Arenberg

Laetitia d'Arenberg, formerly Lætitia Marie Madelaine Susanne Valentine de Belzunce d'Arenberg,Genealogisches Handbuch des Adels, Fürstliche Häuser XVI.

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Lanta, Haute-Garonne

Lanta is a commune in the Haute-Garonne department in southwestern France.

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Laporte

Laporte, LaPorte, or La Porte may refer to.

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Le Canard enchaîné

Le Canard enchaîné (English: The Chained Duck or The Chained Paper, as "canard" is French slang meaning "newspaper"), is a satirical weekly newspaper in France.

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Lieutenant en second

Lieutenant en second was a junior officer rank in the French Royal Army prior to the French Revolution.

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List of French dukedoms

This is a list of ducal titles created by the monarchs of France.

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List of French marquisates

The following page contains an incomplete list (A-Z) of marquisates (French marquisat) that currently, or once did, exist within France or within its conquered provinces.

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List of French peerages

For an explanation of the French peerage, see the article Peerage of France.

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Longe

Longe (Old Norman: le Longe or le Long) is an English and French aristocratic household, descending from the House of Bourbon-Préaux, a cadet branch of the House of Bourbon.

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Louis A. Thebaud

Louis A. Thebaud (October 24, 1859 – April 2, 1939) was an American businessman, sportsman and philanthropist in the Gilded Age.

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Louis Antoine de Saint-Just

Louis Antoine Léon de Saint-Just (25 August 176728 July 1794) was a military and political leader during the French Revolution.

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Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil

Louis Charles Auguste Le Tonnelier, Baron de Breteuil, Baron de Preuilly (7 March 1730 – 2 November 1807) was a French aristocrat, diplomat and statesman.

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Louis Étienne Arthur Dubreuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière

Louis Étienne Arthur du Breuil, vicomte de La Guéronnière (1816-23 December 1875) was a French politician and aristocrat, the member of a notable Poitou family.

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Louis Claude de Saint-Martin

Louis Claude de Saint-Martin (January 18, 1743 – 14 October 1803) was a French philosopher, known as le philosophe inconnu, the name under which his works were published; he was an influential of the mystic and human mind evolution and became one of the founders of the Martinism Order.

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Louis Duret

Louis Duret was a French physician to Charles IX of France and his brother Henry III of France as their chief physician.

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Louis François Perrin de Précy

Louis François Perrin, comte de Précy (14 January 1742 – 25 August 1820.. Sur le site du Musée d’Histoire Militaire.), was a French nobleman and soldier who lead royalist forces during the Siege of Lyon.

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Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly

Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly (1741–1792), seventh Duke of Chaulnes and son of Michel Ferdinand d'Albert d'Ailly, was a chemist and French aristocrat.

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Louis Juchereau de St. Denis

Louis Antoine Juchereau de St.

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Louis XIII of France

Louis XIII (27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1610 to 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown.

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Louis XVI of France

Louis XVI (23 August 1754 – 21 January 1793), born Louis-Auguste, was the last King of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Revolution.

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Louis-Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues

Emmanuel Henri Louis Alexandre de Launay, comte d'Antraigues (25 December 1753 Montpellier – 22 July 1812 Barnes, London) was a French pamphleteer, diplomat, spy and political adventurer during the French Revolution and Napoleonic Wars.

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Louis-Auguste Juvénal des Ursins d'Harville

Louis-Auguste Juvénal des Ursins d'Harville, Count of Harville (23 April 1749, Paris – 8 May 1815, Harville or Lizy-sur-Ourcq, France), was a French military officer and politician in late 18th century France.

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Louis-Michel le Peletier, marquis de Saint-Fargeau

Louis-Michel le Peletier, Marquis of Saint-Fargeau (sometimes spelled Lepeletier; 29 May 176020 January 1793) was a French politician and martyr of the French revolution.

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Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien

Louise Marie de La Grange d'Arquien (28 June 1638 – 11 November 1728) was a French noblewoman, the elder sister of Marie Casimire Louise de La Grange d'Arquien, Queen of Poland.

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Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel

Louise-Élisabeth de Croÿ de Tourzel (Louise Élisabeth Félicité Françoise Armande Anne Marie Jeanne Joséphine de Croÿ de Tourzel) 11 June 1749 – 15 May 1832), the Marquise de Tourzel (later Duchess) was a French noble and courtier. She was the Governess of the Children of France from 1789 until 1792. Decades after the French Revolution, de Tourzel published widely read memoirs, which presented a unique perspective on the royal family.

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Lumières

The Lumières (literally in English: Enlighteners) was a cultural, philosophical, literary and intellectual movement of the second half of the 18th century, originating in France and spreading throughout Europe.

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Madam

Madam, or, as French, madame or, is a polite form of address for women, often contracted to ma'am.

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Maison du Roi

The Maison du Roi ("The King's Household") was the name of the royal household of the King of France.

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Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau

Major General Comte Jean de Rochambeau is a bronze statue by Fernand Hamar which honors Jean-Baptiste Donatien de Vimeur, comte de Rochambeau, a French nobleman and general who played a major role in helping the Thirteen Colonies win independence during the American Revolution.

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Marguerite de La Rocque

Marguerite de La Rocque de Roberval (fl 1536–1542) was a French noblewoman who spent some years marooned on the Île des Démons while on her way to New France (Quebec).

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Marguerite Françoise de Buffon

Marguerite Françoise Bouvier de la Mothe de Cepoy (1762–1808), known as Countess de Buffon, was a French noble, known as the royal mistress of Louis Philippe II, Duke of Orléans from 1784 until 1793.

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Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles

Marie-Jean Hérault de Séchelles (20 September 1759 – 5 April 1794) was a French judge and politician who took part in the French Revolution.

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Mark Hellinger Theatre

The Mark Hellinger Theatre is a former Broadway theatre and cinema complex, located at 237 West 51st Street in midtown Manhattan, New York City.

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Marquis de Custine

Astolphe-Louis-Léonor, Marquis de Custine (18 March 1790 – 25 september 1857) was a French aristocrat and writer who is best known for his travel writing, in particular his account of his visit to Russia La Russie en 1839.

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Master of Requests (France)

A Master of Requests (in French maître des requêtes) is a Counsel of the Council of State (''Conseil d'État''), a high-level judicial officer of administrative law in France and other European countries that has existed in one form or another since the Middle Ages.

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Mathieu de Montmorency

Mathieu Jean Felicité de Montmorency, duc de Montmorency-Laval (10 July 1767 – 24 March 1826) was a prominent French statesman during the French Revolution and Bourbon Restoration.

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Mathilde of Saarbrücken

Mathilde of Saarbrücken (1224-1276), was a sovereign countess regnant of Saarbrücken from 1271 to 1276.

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Matteo I Visconti

Matteo I Visconti (Invorio, 15 August 1250 – Crescenzago, 24 June 1322) was the son of Teobaldo Visconti (nephew of the Archbishop of Milan, Ottone Visconti) and Anastasia Pirovano.

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Megève

Megève is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes region in south-eastern France with a population of over 4,000 residents.

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Mestre de camp

Mestre de camp or Maître de camp (camp-master) was a military rank in the Ancien Régime of France, equivalent to colonel.

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Michael Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil

Michael Charles Grant, 12th Baron de Longueuil (born 1947) is a nobleman possessing the only French colonial title recognized by the Monarch of Canada, currently his second cousin once removed, Elizabeth II of Canada.

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Mikhail Tereshchenko

Mikhail Ivanovich Tereshchenko (Михаи́л Ива́нович Тере́щенко; Михайло Іванович Терещенко) (18 March 1886, in Kiev – 1 April 1956, in Monaco) was the foreign minister of Russia from 18 May 1917 to 7 November 1917.

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Montérolier

Montérolier is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Normandy region in northern France.

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Montgomerie family

de Montgomerie is a prominent family of Anglo-Normans origin, belonging to both French and British nobility.

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Montmorency, Val-d'Oise

Montmorency is a commune in the northern suburbs of Paris, France.

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National Legislative Assembly (France)

The Legislative Assembly (Assemblée législative) was the legislature of France from 1 October 1791 to 20 September 1792 during the years of the French Revolution.

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Nicholas de la Motte

Nicholas de la Motte (Bar-sur-Aube 29 July 1755 – Paris 6 November 1831), born Marc-Antoine-Nicolas Levieux de la Motte d'Égry, sieur de la Motte, was an 18th-century French adventurer known for his part as a swindler in the affair of the diamond necklace.

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Nicolas Chédeville

Nicolas Chédeville (20 February 1705 – 6 August 1782) was a French composer, musette player and musette maker.

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Nicolas Denys

Nicolas Denys (1598? – 1688) was a French aristocrat who became an explorer, colonizer, soldier and leader in New France.

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Nicolas Rapin

Nicolas Rapin (1535 – 16 February 1608) was a French Renaissance magistrate, royal officer, translator, poet and satirist, known for being one of the authors of the Satire Ménippée (1593/4) and an outspoken critic of the excesses of the Holy League during the Wars of Religion.

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Noël du Fail

Noël du Fail, seigneur de La Hérissaye (c.1520–1591) was a French jurist and writer of the Renaissance.

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Nobility

Nobility is a social class in aristocracy, normally ranked immediately under royalty, that possesses more acknowledged privileges and higher social status than most other classes in a society and with membership thereof typically being hereditary.

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Nobility of the First French Empire

As Emperor of the French, Napoleon I created titles of nobility to institute a stable elite in the First French Empire, after the instability resulting from the French Revolution.

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Normans

The Normans (Norman: Normaunds; Normands; Normanni) were the people who, in the 10th and 11th centuries, gave their name to Normandy, a region in France.

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Order of Saint Lazarus (statuted 1910)

The Military and Hospitaller Order of Saint Lazarus of Jerusalem (Latin: Ordo Militaris et Hospitalis Sancti Lazari Hierosolymitani) is a Christian ecumenical lay order statuted in 1910 by a council of Catholics in Paris, France, initially under the protection of Patriarch Cyril VIII Jaha of the Melkite Greek Catholic Church.

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Palais Rohan, Strasbourg

The Palais Rohan (Rohan Palace) in Strasbourg is the former residence of the prince-bishops and cardinals of the House of Rohan, an ancient French noble family originally from Brittany.

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Paul de Rapin

Paul de Rapin (25 March 1661 – 25 April 1725), sieur of Thoyras (and therefore styled Thoyras de Rapin), was a French historian writing under English patronage.

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Peerage of France

The Peerage of France (Pairie de France) was a hereditary distinction within the French nobility which appeared in 1180 in the Middle Ages, and only a small number of noble individuals were peers.

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Pernette Du Guillet

Pernette Du Guillet (c.1520 – July 7, 1545) was a female French poet of the Renaissance.

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Petticoat Government

Petticoat Government was written by Baroness Orczy, author of The Scarlet Pimpernel, in 1910.

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Philippe Balthazar de Gand

Philippe Balthazar de Gand (4 October 1616 - 27 February 1680), Count of Isenghien, was a French nobleman and Knight of the Order of the Golden Fleece.

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Philippe de Mézières

Philippe de Mézières (c. 1327 – May 29, 1405), a French soldier and author, was born at the chateau of Mézières in Picardy.

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Philippe de Villiers

Philippe Marie Jean Joseph Le Jolis de Villiers de Saintignon, Viscount de Villiers, known as Philippe de Villiers (born 25 March 1949),.

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Philippe Louis de Noailles

Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine, comte de Noailles, prince-duc de Poix, and 2nd Spanish and 1st French duc de Mouchy (21 November or 21 December 1752 — 17 February 1819), was a French soldier, and politician of the Revolution.

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Philippe-Antoine Merlin de Douai

Philippe-Antoine Merlin, known as Merlin de Douai (30 October 1754 – 26 December 1838) was a French politician and lawyer.

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Pierre Claude Pajol

Claude-Pierre, Comte de Pajol (3 February 1772 – 20 March 1844), was a French cavalry general and military commander during the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, and political figure.

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Pierre de Coubertin

Pierre de Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (born Pierre de Frédy; 1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937, also known as Pierre de Coubertin and Baron de Coubertin) was a French educator and historian, and founder of the International Olympic Committee, as well as its second President.

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Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix

Pierre François Xavier de Charlevoix, S.J. (Petrus Franciscus-Xaverius de Charlevoix; 1682–1761) was a French Jesuit priest, traveller, and historian, often considered the first historian of New France.

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Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours

Pierre Samuel du Pont de Nemours (14 December 1739 – 7 August 1817) was a French writer, economist, publisher and government official.

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Pineton de Chambrun

The Pineton de Chambrun is a French aristocratic family, of which several members have taken an important part in French politics.

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Poitou donkey

The Poitou donkey or Poitou ass ('Baudet du Poitou'), also called the Poitevin donkey or simply the Poitou, is a breed of donkey originating in the Poitou region of France.

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Première dame d'honneur

Première dame d'honneur ('First lady of honour'), or simply dame d'honneur ('lady of honour'), was an office at the royal court of France.

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Prince Michel, Count of Évreux

Prince Michel of Orléans, fils de France, Count of Évreux (Michel Joseph Benoît Marie; born 25 June 1941, Rabat, Morocco) is a member of the House of Orléans which reigned over France between 1830 and 1848, a cadet branch of the royal House of Bourbon.

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Prince of Guéméné

Prince of Guéméné is a title of French nobility associated with the fiefdom of Guémené-sur-Scorff in Brittany and held within the House of Rohan.

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Princess Nadezhda Tereshchenko

Nadezhda Tereshchenko also known as Nadezhda Mouravieff-Apostol and Nadezhda Mouravieff-Apostol-Korobyine (Надéжда Терéщенко; Надíя Терéщенко) was the daughter of Theodore Artemievich Tereshchenko and Nadezhda Vladimirovna Khlopoff from ancient and noble Khlopoff family.

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Provinces of France

The Kingdom of France was organized into provinces until March 4, 1790, when the establishment of the department (French: département) system superseded provinces.

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Rainier III, Prince of Monaco

Rainier III (born Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi; 31 May 1923 – 6 April 2005) ruled the Principality of Monaco for almost 56 years, making him one of the longest ruling monarchs in European history.

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Raoul de Soissons

Raoul de Soissons (1210x15 – 1270, or shortly thereafter) was a French nobleman, Crusader, and trouvère.

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Raoul II of Clermont

Raoul II/III of Clermont-Nesle (c. 1245 – Kortrijk, July 11, 1302) was Seigneur (Lord) of Nesle in Picardy (de), Viscount of Châteaudun (de), Grand Chamberlain of France and Constable of France.

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Raynald of Châtillon

Raynald of Châtillon, also known as Reynald or Reginald of Châtillon (Renaud de Châtillon; 1125 – 4 July 1187), was Prince of Antioch from 1153 to 1160 or 1161, and Lord of Oultrejordain from 1175 until his death.

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Redorer son blason

Redorer son blason (literally "to re-gild one's coat of arms") was a social practice taking place in France before the French Revolution whereby a poor aristocratic family married a daughter to a rich commoner.

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René Hérault

René Hérault, Seigneur de Fontaine-l'Abbé et de Vaucresson (23 April 1691 – 2 August 1740), simply known as René Hérault, and sometimes as René Hérault de Vaucresson, was a French magistrate and administrator who served as Lieutenant General of Police of Paris from 1725 to 1739.

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René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière

René-Louis Chartier de Lotbinière (1641–1709) was a French-Canadian Poet, 1st Seigneur de Lotbinière in New France (1672), Judge of the Provost and Admiralty Courts and Chief Councillor of the Sovereign Council of New France.

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Richard Olivier de Longueil

Richard Olivier de Longueil (1406–1470) (called the Cardinal of Coutances or the Cardinal of Eu) was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.

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Robert de Baudricourt

Robert de Baudricourt (ca. 1400-1454), Seigneur de Baudricourt, Blaise, Buxy and Sorcy was a minor figure of 15th century French nobility.

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Robert de Vaugondy

Gilles Robert de Vaugondy (1688–1766), also known as Le Sieur or Monsieur Robert, and his son, Didier Robert de Vaugondy (c.1723–1786), were leading cartographers in France during the 18th century.

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Rougé

Rougé (Ruzieg) is a commune in the Loire-Atlantique department in western France.

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Rudolf von Laban

Rudolf von Laban, also known as Rudolf Laban (Rezső Lábán de Váraljas, Lábán Rezső, Lábán Rudolf) (15 December 1879 – 1 July 1958), was a dance artist and theorist.

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Sankin-kōtai

was a policy of the Tokugawa shogunate during most of the Edo period of Japanese history.

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Sans-culottes

The sans-culottes (literally "without breeches") were the common people of the lower classes in late 18th century France, a great many of whom became radical and militant partisans of the French Revolution in response to their poor quality of life under the Ancien Régime.

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Ségur Ordinance

The Ségur Ordinance of 1781 was a French law that required French officer candidates to produce proof of having at least four generations of nobility.

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Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi

The Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi (Secrétaire d'État à la Maison du Roi) was the secretary of state in France during the "Ancien Régime" and Bourbon Restoration in charge of the Département de la Maison du Roi.

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Seigneurial system of New France

The manorial system of New France was the semi-feudal system of land tenure used in the North American French colonial empire.

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Shagreen

Shagreen is a type of rawhide consisting of rough untanned skin, historically from a horse's or onager's back, or from shark or ray.

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Simon II of Clermont

Simon II of Clermont-Nesle (c. 1210 – 1285/86) was Seigneur (Lord) of Ailly, Maulette and Nesle (in Picardy) (de).

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Simon III, Count of Saarbrücken

Simon III of Sarrebrück, Simon III von Saarbrücken (Saarbrücken-Leiningen) (c. 1180–1243) was the Count of Saarbrücken (de) from 1207 until his death, about 1240.

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Simon IV, Count of Saarbrücken

Simon IV, Count of Saarbrücken, Simon of Saarbrücken-Commercy (born before 1247; dead 1308).

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Simon Tereshchenko

Simon Artemievich Tereshchenko (25 May 1839 in Hlukhiv – 1893) was a millionaire, Hlukhiv city bank director, Glushkovsky cloth factory owner, and Kherson Oblast salt mine director.

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Sofia Tereshchenko

Sofia Tereschenko (Ukrainian Софія Терещенко; born 22 October 1984) is a Greek-Ukrainian fashion model, dancer, politician and entrepreneur.

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Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre

Stanislas Marie Adélaïde, comte de Clermont-Tonnerre (October 10, 1747 – August 10, 1792) was a French nobleman, military officer, and politician during the French Revolution.

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Succession of Henry IV of France

Henry IV of France's succession to the throne in 1589 was followed by a four-year war of succession to establish his legitimacy.

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Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine

Surintendante de la Maison de la Reine ("Superintendent of the Queen's Household"), or only Surintendante, was the senior lady-in-waiting at the royal court of France from 1619 until the French revolution.

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Tabouillot

Tabouillot is a French noble family, originally from Regret, a village near Verdun.

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Tennis Court Oath

On 20 June 1789, the members of the French Estates-General or the Third Estate, who had begun to call themselves the National Assembly, took the Tennis Court Oath (Serment du Jeu de Paume), vowing "not to separate, and to reassemble wherever circumstances require, until the constitution of the kingdom is established".

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Tereshchenko churches

Tereshchenko family is one the rare families, who traditionally donated and supported Christian churches all over the world.

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Tereshchenko diamond

The Tereshchenko Diamond, sometimes known as the Tereshchenko Blue, is a 42.92 carat diamond of blue colour that is cut in the pear shape.

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Tereshchenko family

Members of the Tereshchenko family have achieved prominence in Ukraine and the world as businessmen, entrepreneurs, philanthropists, and landowners, beginning in the 18th century.

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The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo

The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo is a 2012 biography of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas written by Tom Reiss.

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Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness

Thelma Furness, Viscountess Furness (born Thelma Morgan, 23 August 1904 – 29 January 1970) was a mistress of King Edward VIII while he was still the Prince of Wales; she preceded Wallis Simpson in his affections (for whose sake Edward abdicated and became the Duke of Windsor).

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Thomas de Canaberis

Thomas de Canaberis (c.1250-?) was a French nobleman, served as teacher in the Medieval university of France.

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Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras

Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras (March 26, 1744 – February 19, 1790) was a French aristocrat and supporter of the House of Bourbon during the French Revolution.

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Treaty of Amiens (1423)

The Treaty of Amiens was a 1423 defensive agreement between John of Lancaster, 1st Duke of Bedford, Philip II, Duke of Burgundy and Arthur, Earl of Richmond (on behalf of John V, Duke of Brittany), in which the three parties acknowledged Henry VI of England as King of France, and agreed to aid each other against the Valois claimant, Charles VII of France.

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Varvara Khanenko

Varvara Nikolovna Khanenko (née: Tereshchenko) (Варва́ра Никола́евна Хане́нко; Варвара Ніколівна Ханенко) was the eldest daughter of the famous entrepreneur, sugar king, philanthropist and collector Nikola Tereshchenko.

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Versailles (TV series)

Versailles is a Franco-Canadian historical fiction television series, set during the construction of the Palace of Versailles during the reign of Louis XIV, that premiered on 16 November 2015 on Canal+ in France and on Super Channel in Canada, in May 2016 on BBC Two in Britain, and on 1 October 2016 on Ovation in the U.S. The Movie Network gave early access to all of season 2 in October 2016, prior to its 2017 broadcast dates.

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Victoire de Rohan

Victoire Armande Josèphe de Rohan, Princess of Guéméné (Victoire Armande Josèphe; 28 December 1743 – 20 September 1807) was a French noblewoman and court official.

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Vidame de Chartres

Vidame de Chartres was a title in the French nobility.

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Voltaire

François-Marie Arouet (21 November 1694 – 30 May 1778), known by his nom de plume Voltaire, was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on Christianity as a whole, especially the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech and separation of church and state.

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Wallerand de Saint-Just

Wallerand de Saint-Just (born 6 July 1950) is a French lawyer and politician.

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Women's March on Versailles

The Women's March on Versailles, also known as The October March, The October Days, or simply The March on Versailles, was one of the earliest and most significant events of the French Revolution.

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Yolanda of Lusignan

Yolanda of Lusignan or Yolande I & I de Lusignan, Countess of La Marche (24 March 1257 – 30 September 1314) was a French noblewoman and peeress.

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17th century

The 17th century was the century that lasted from January 1, 1601, to December 31, 1700, in the Gregorian calendar.

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1807 in France

Events from the year 1807 in France.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_nobility

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