youngest child of Marie Thérèse de Broglie. His mother was the sister of the Maréchal de Broglie and a favourite of Marie Antoinette. His other two brothers...

Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie (12 March 1647 – 4 August 1727) was a French soldier and general. Victor-Maurice de Broglie was born in the De Broglie...

He was further promoted to maréchal de camp in 1691 and lieutenant général on 3 January 1696 before being made Maréchal de France on 15 September 1709...

Talleyrand-Périgord, Prince de Chalais and Françoise de Montluc, daughter of Maréchal de Montluc. He started to serve in the military early in his life. He was...

Victor-Maurice, comte de Broglie (1647–1727), served under Condé, Turenne and other great commanders of the age of Louis XIV. He became maréchal de camp in...

Philippe Henri, comte de Grimoard (1753–1815) was a French soldier and military writer. He entered the royal army at the age of sixteen, and in 1775 published...

Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant (1602 – 17 November 1643) was marshal of France. He was born at Plessis-Budes, near St Brieuc, in a Breton family...

maréchal de France, killed before the fort of Breme, 1636. (Davitan the younger) Battle of the Dunes at the siege of Dunkirk, won by the maréchal de...

originally "Marshal General of the King's camps and armies" (French: maréchal général des camps et armées du roi), was a title given to signify that...

de Gramont (1604–1678), Military officer and diplomat, with the title Maréchal de France (1641). Catherine-Charlotte de Gramont (1639–1678), princesse...

Louis de Buade, Comte de Frontenac et de Palluau (French pronunciation: [lwi də bɥad kɔ̃t də fʁɔ̃tənak e də palɥo]; 22 May 1622 – 28 November 1698) was...

Thorigny then comte de Gacé, brigadier on August 24, 1688, maréchal de camp on March 29, 1689, lieutenant général on March 30, 1693, maréchal de France on...

Abbott Michel de Pure, Histoire du maréchal de Gassion (Paris 1673, Amsterdam 1696) Théophraste Renaudot, La Vie et la mort du maréchal de Gassion, (1647)...

Ezéchiel du Mas, Comte de Mélac (about 1630, Sainte-Radegonde, Gironde – 10 May 1704) was a career soldier in the French army under King Louis XIV and...

Joseph Marie, comte de Maistre (1 April 1753 – 26 February 1821) was a Savoyard philosopher, writer, lawyer, diplomat, and magistrate. One of the forefathers...

(1880) Madame de Maintenon et le maréchal de Villars. Correspondance inédite (1881) Madame de Maintenon et le maréchal de Villars. Correspondance inédite...

d’Artagnan, baron of Sainte-Croix, lord of Chanlecy and Castelmore, and became maréchal de camp. He married on 21 May, 1707 Marie Anne Amé (1670–1714) and died...

Jean-Marie-Mathias-Philippe-Auguste, comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam (7 November 1838 – 19 August 1889) was a French symbolist writer. His family called...

thirteen accompanied his father, Charles-Benoît, comte de Guibert (1715–1786), chief of staff to Maréchal de Broglie, throughout the Seven Years' War in...

a stern disciplinarian, earned him the nickname "The Iron Marshal" (Le Maréchal de fer). He is ranked along with Marshals André Masséna and Jean Lannes...

Robert (1905). La Vie et les Prophéties du Comte de Gobineau, Calmann-Lévy. Faÿ, Bernard (1930). Le Comte Arthur de Gobineau et la Grèce, H. Champion...

was born in Paris, officially the son of maréchal de camp Charles-François de Flahaut de La Billarderie, comte de Flahaut (second son of Charles-César...

attained the rank of maréchal de camp in the army. Victor adopted radical opinions and served with the Marquis de La Fayette and the Comte de Rochambeau in...

fortresses known as the Ceinture de fer, or iron belt (see Map). He was made Maréchal de camp in 1676, and succeeded Clerville as Commissaire general des fortifications...

de Franche-Comté et de la Ville de Besançon, is a botanical garden located on the Place du Maréchal Leclerc, Besançon, Doubs, Franche-Comté, France. It...

Catherine d'Espalungue de Rague in Béarn, France. His father lived in Paris as maréchal-des-logis for the Musketeers of the Guard, but upon the death of Henri's...

adoptive stepmother, Vuitton left his home in Jura (department), in Franche-Comté in the spring of 1835, at the age of 13. Taking odd jobs along the way,...

(Doyen des maréchaux), who was in fact the most senior "Marshal of France" (Maréchal de France); as the word doyen is used in French mainly in the sense of...

Jean-Baptiste Drouet d'Erlon (Maréchal de France) Antoine Drouot (général de division) Louis Pierre Milcolombe Drummond, comte de Melfort (général de brigade)...

Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon (French: [ʒɔʁʒ lwi ləklɛʁ kɔ̃t də byfɔ̃]; 7 September 1707 – 16 April 1788) was a French naturalist, mathematician...