List: French nobility

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•  Pierre de Coubertin

  Pierre Frédy, Baron de Coubertin (1 January 1863 – 2 September 1937) was a French pedagogue and historian, founder of the International Olympic Committee, and considered father of the modern Olympic Games. Born into a French aristocratic family, he became an academic and studied a broad range of topics, most notably education and history.

  

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•  Michel de Montaigne

  Michel Eyquem de Montaigne (February 28, 1533 – September 13, 1592) was one of the most influential writers of the French Renaissance, known for popularizing the essay as a literary genre. He became famous for his effortless ability to merge serious intellectual speculation with casual anecdotes and autobiography — and his massive volume Essais (translated literally as "Attempts") contains, to this day, some of the most widely influential essays ever written.

  

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•  George Sand

  Amantine (also "Amandine") Aurore Lucile Dupin, later Baroness Dudevant (1 July 1804 – 8 June 1876), best known by her pseudonym George Sand, was a French novelist. She is considered by some a feminist although she refused to join this movement. She is regarded as the first French female novelist to gain a major reputation.

  

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•  Vauban

  Sébastien Le Prestre, Seigneur de Vauban and later Marquis de Vauban (15 May 1633 – 30 March 1707), commonly referred to as Vauban, was a Marshal of France and the foremost military engineer of his age, famed for his skill in both designing fortifications and in breaking through them. He also advised Louis XIV on how to consolidate France's borders, to make them more defensible.

  

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•  Louis Petit de Bachaumont

  Louis Petit de Bachaumont (June 2, 1690 – April 29, 1771) was a French writer, whose historical interest has been connected largely to his alleged role in the gossipy Mémoires secrets pour servir à l'histoire de la République des Lettres. A modern biography brought to general attention his other roles, as an arbiter of taste, an influential art critic and an urbaniste Petit de Bachaumont was of noble family and was brought up at the court of Versailles.

  

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•  Miklós Zrínyi

  Miklós Zrínyi or Nikola Zrinski was a Croatian and Hungarian warrior, statesman and poet, member of the Zrinski noble family.

  

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•  Joséphine de Beauharnais

  Joséphine de Beauharnais (23 June 1763 – 29 May 1814) was the first wife of Napoléon Bonaparte, and thus the first Empress of the French. Her first husband Alexandre de Beauharnais had been guillotined during the Reign of Terror, and she had been imprisoned in the Carmes prison until her release five days after Alexandre's execution. Through her daughter, Hortense, she was the maternal grandmother of Napoléon III.

  

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•  Eugène de Beauharnais

  Eugène Rose de Beauharnais, Prince Français, Prince of Venice, Viceroy of the Kingdom of Italy, Hereditary Grand Duke of Frankfurt, 1st Duke of Leuchtenberg and 1st Prince of Eichstätt ad personam (3 September 1781 – 21 February 1824) was the first child and only son of the future French emperor Napoleon's first wife, Joséphine Tascher de la Pagerie and Alexandre, Vicomte de Beauharnais.

  

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•  Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec

  Henri Marie Raymond de Toulouse-Lautrec-Monfa or simply Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (24 November 1864 – 9 September 1901) was a French painter, printmaker, draughtsman, and illustrator, whose immersion in the colourful and theatrical life of fin de siècle Paris yielded an œuvre of exciting, elegant and provocative images of the modern and sometimes decadent life of those times.

  

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•  Pierre de Marivaux

  Pierre Carlet de Chamblain de Marivaux (February 4, 1688 – February 12, 1763), commonly referred to as Marivaux, was a French novelist and dramatist. He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing numerous comedies for the Comédie-Française and the Comédie-Italienne of Paris. His most important works are ', Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard and Les Fausses Confidences.

  

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•  Cardinal Richelieu

  Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu, Cardinal-Duc de Richelieu (9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), was a French clergyman, noble, and statesman. Consecrated as a bishop in 1608, he later entered politics, becoming a Secretary of State in 1616. Richelieu soon rose in both the Church and the state, becoming a cardinal in 1622, and King Louis XIII's chief minister in 1624. He remained in office until his death in 1642; he was succeeded by Jules Cardinal Mazarin, whose career he fostered.

  

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•  Nicolas Fouquet

  Nicolas Fouquet, marquis de Belle-Île, vicomte de Melun et Vaux (January 27, 1615 – March 23, 1680) was the Superintendent of Finances in France under Louis XIV.

  

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•  Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark

  Henrik, Prince Consort of Denmark (né Henri Marie Jean André de Laborde de Monpezat; born 11 June 1934) is the husband of the Queen of Denmark, Margrethe II.

  

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•  Alfred de Vigny

  Alfred Victor de Vigny (27 March 1797 – 17 September 1863) was a French poet, playwright, and novelist.

  

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•  Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes

  Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (6 December 1721 – 23 April 1794), often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman, minister, and afterwards counsel for the defence of Louis XVI. Born at Paris from a famous legal family, he was educated for the legal profession.

  

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•  Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette

  Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (or Lafayette) (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834) was a French aristocrat and military officer born in the province of Auvergne in south central France. Lafayette was a general in the American Revolutionary War and a leader of the Garde Nationale during the French Revolution. In the American Revolution, Lafayette served in the Continental Army under George Washington.

  

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•  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (29 July 1805, Paris – 16 April 1859, Cannes) was a French political thinker and historian best known for his Democracy in America and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856). In both of these works, he explored the effects of the rising equality of social conditions on the individual and the state in western societies.

  

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•  Isaac de Benserade

  French literature By category French literary history Medieval 16th century · 17th century 18th century · 19th century 20th century · Contemporary French writers Chronological list Writers by category Novelists · Playwrights Poets · Essayists Short story writers France portal Literature portalThis box: view • talk • edit Isaac de Benserade (baptized November 5, 1613 – October 10, 1691) was a French poet.

  

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•  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle (11 February 1657 – 9 January 1757), also referred to as Bernard le Bouyer de Fontenelle, was a French author. Fontenelle was born in Rouen, France (then the capital of Normandy). He died in Paris just one month before his 100th birthday, living four times the average life expectancy at the time. His mother was the sister of the great French dramatists Pierre Corneille and Thomas Corneille.

  

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•  Arnaud du Ferrièr

  Arnaud du Ferrièr (c. 1508-1585) was a French lawyer and diplomat. He was born at Toulouse about 1508, and practised as a lawyer first at Bourges, afterwards at Toulouse. Councillor to the parlement of the latter town, and then to that of Rennes, he later became president of the parlement of Paris.

  

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•  François-René de Chateaubriand

  François-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand (4 September 1768 – 4 July 1848) was a French writer, politician and diplomat. He is considered the founder of Romanticism in French literature.

  

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•  Alfred de Musset

  Alfred Louis Charles de Musset-Pathay (11 December 1810 – 2 May 1857) was a French dramatist, poet, and novelist.

  

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•  Alphonse de Lamartine

  Alphonse Marie Louis de Prat de Lamartine (21 October 1790 - 28 February 1869) was a French writer, poet and politician.

  

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•  Charles de Rémusat

  Charles François Marie, Comte de Rémusat (13 March 1797 - 6 June 1875), was a French politician and writer.

  

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•  Jacques Leroy de Saint Arnaud

  Armand-Jacques Leroy de Saint-Arnaud (August 20, 1801-September 29, 1854) was a French soldier and Marshal of France during the 19th century. He served as French Minister of War until the Crimean War when he became Commander-in-chief of the army of the East.

  

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