List: French nobility

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•  Maurice de Saxe

  Maurice de Saxe (28 October 1696 – 20 November 1750) was a French general who was Marshal and later also Marshal General of France.

  

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•  Adelbert von Chamisso

  Adelbert von Chamisso (January 30, 1781 – August 21, 1838) was a German poet and botanist.

  

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•  Hugues de Payens

  Hugues de Payens, also Hughes de Payns, Hughes de Pagan (c. 1070–1136), a Frankish knight from the Champagne region, was the co-founder and first Grand Master of the Knights Templar. With Saint Bernard of Clairvaux, he created the Latin Rule, the code of behavior for the Order.

  

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•  Paul Chomedey de Maisonneuve

  Paul Chomedey, sieur de Maisonneuve (February 15, 1612 – September 9, 1676) was a French military officer and the founder of Montreal.

  

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•  René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle

  René Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, or Robert de LaSalle (November 21, 1643 – March 19, 1687) was a French explorer. He explored the Great Lakes region of the United States and Canada, the Mississippi River, and the Gulf of Mexico. La Salle claimed the entire Mississippi River basin for France.

  

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•  Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye

  Pierre Gaultier de Varennes, sieur de La Vérendrye (November 17, 1685 – December 5, 1749) was a French Canadian military officer, fur trader and explorer.

  

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•  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm

  Louis-Joseph de Montcalm-Gozon, Marquis de Saint-Veran (February 28, 1712 – September 14, 1759) was a French soldier best known as the commander of the forces in North America during the Seven Years' War (whose North American theatre is called the French and Indian War in the United States). Montcalm was born near Nîmes in France to a noble family, and entered military service early in life.

  

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•  Madame du Barry

  Jeanne Bécu, comtesse du Barry (19 August 1743 – 8 December 1793) was the last Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XV of France and one of the victims of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution.

  

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•  Jean François de Saint-Lambert

  Jean François de Saint-Lambert (26 December 1716 – 9 February 1803) was a French poet and military officer, but he is most remembered for his involvement in two love affairs. He was born at Nancy and raised on his parents' estate at Affracourt, a village in Lorraine near Haroué, a seat of the Beauvau family, with whom he had close ties. He studied at the university at Pont-à-Mousson, but then spent several years at home recovering from an unidentified illness.

  

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•  Pierre Louis Maupertuis

  Pierre-Louis Moreau de Maupertuis was a French mathematician, philosopher and man of letters. He became the Director of the Académie des Sciences, and the first President of the Berlin Academy of Science, at the invitation of Frederick the Great. Maupertuis made an expedition to Lapland to determine the shape of the earth.

  

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•  Silvestre de Sacy

  Antoine Isaac, Baron Silvestre de Sacy (21 September 1758 – 21 February 1838), was a French linguist and orientalist. His son Ustazade Silvestre de Sacy became a journalist.

  

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•  Anne Louise Germaine de Staël

  Anne Louise Germaine de Staël-Holstein (22 April 1766 – 14 July 1817), commonly known as Madame de Staël, was a French-speaking Swiss author living in Paris and abroad. She influenced literary tastes in Europe at the turn of the 19th century.

  

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•  Pierre Claude François Daunou

  Pierre Claude François Daunou (18 August 1761 – 20 June 1840) was a French statesman and historian of the French Revolution and Empire.

  

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•  Charles Forbes René de Montalembert

  Charles Forbes René de Montalembert (March 18, 1810 London - March 13, 1870 Paris), was a French publicist and historian.

  

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•  Hughes Felicité Robert de Lamennais

  

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•  James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick

  James FitzJames, 1st Duke of Berwick (21 August 1670 – 12 June 1734) was a French military leader, illegitimate son of King James II of England by Arabella Churchill, sister of the 1st Duke of Marlborough. In 1695 he married Honora De Burgh or De Burgo, the daughter of William Bourke, 7th Earl of Clanricarde and the widow of the 1st Earl of Lucan, who died in 1698. His second marriage, with Anne Bulkeley, daughter of Henry Bulkeley, took place in 1700.

  

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•  Charlotte Corday

  Marie-Anne Charlotte de Corday d'Armont (27 July 1768 – 17 July 1793), known to history as Charlotte Corday, was a figure of the French Revolution. In 1793, she was executed under the guillotine for the assassination of Jacobin leader Jean-Paul Marat, who was partly responsible for the Reign of Terror. His murder was memorialized in a celebrated painting by Jacques-Louis David which shows Marat after Corday had stabbed him to death in his bathtub.

  

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•  Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan

  Louis René Édouard, cardinal de Rohan (25 September 1734 – 16 February 1803), prince de Rohan-Guemenée, was a French bishop of Strasbourg (then Strassburg), politician, cardinal of the Roman Catholic Church, and cadet of the Rohan family (which traced its origin to the kings of Brittany). He was born in Paris.

  

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•  Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse

  Louis Thomas Villaret de Joyeuse (29 May 1750 - 24 July 1812) was a French admiral.

  

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•  François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt

  François Alexandre Frédéric, duc de la Rochefoucauld-Liancourt (11 January 1747 – 27 March 1827) was a French social reformer.

  

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•  Maurice de Guérin

  Georges Maurice de Guérin du Cayla (August 4, 1810 – July 19, 1839) was a French poet. Descended from a noble and rich family, he was born at the chateau of Le Cayla in Andillac, Tarn. He was educated for the church at a religious seminary at Toulouse, and then at the Collège Stanislas, Paris, after which he entered the society at La Chesnaye in Brittany, founded by Lamennais.

  

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•  Pierre de Rostegny

  Pierre de Rostegny, Lord of De Lancre, aka De Lancre (1553 - 1631) was a French jurist. In 1582 he was named judge in Bordeaux, and in 1608 King Henry IV of France commanded him to put an end to the practice of witchcraft in Labourd, in the French part of the Basque Country, where in three years he burnt at the stake about six hundred persons. He wrote three books on witchcraft, analysing the Sabbath, lycanthropy, and sexual relationships during the Sabbath.

  

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•  Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet

  Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet (1588 – 2 December 1665), known as Madame de Rambouillet, was a society hostess and a major figure in the literary history of France.

  

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•  François Joseph Paul de Grasse

  François-Joseph Paul, marquis de Grasse Tilly, comte de Grasse (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French admiral. He is best known for his command of the French fleet at the Battle of the Chesapeake, which led directly to the British surrender at Yorktown. De Grasse was decisively defeated the following year by Admiral Rodney at the Battle of the Saintes, where he was captured.

  

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•  Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne

  Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne (9 October 1727 – 16 February 1794) was a French churchman, politician and finance minister of Louis XVI.

  

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