François de Montmorency, 2nd Duke of Montmorency KG (17 July 1530 – 6 May 1579) was a French noble, governor, diplomat and soldier during the latter Italian...
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Paul Barras (redirect from Paul François Nicolas, comte de Barras)
Paul François Jean Nicolas, Vicomte de Barras (French: [bara:s]; 30 June 1755 – 29 January 1829), commonly known as Paul Barras, was a French politician...
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François Joseph Lefebvre, Duke of Danzig (/ləˈfɛvrə/ lə-FEV-rə, French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʒozɛf ləfɛvʁ]; 25 October 1755 – 14 September 1820), was a French military...
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Charles Pierre François Augereau, 1st Duke of Castiglione (French pronunciation: [ʃaʁl pjɛʁ oʒʁo]; 21 October 1757 – 12 June 1816) was a French military...
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de Faudoas-Barbazan (18 May 1788 – 13 September 1844) was a French officer who participated in the French conquest of Algeria. The Marquis de Faudoas...
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Jacques-François de Menou, Baron of Boussay, later Abdallah de Menou, (3 September 1750 – 13 August 1810) was a French statesman and general of Napoleon...
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Jean François Joseph Rochechouart, Cardinal de Rochechouart (27 January 1708 – 20 March 1777) was a French Roman Catholic Cardinal. Born in Toulouse,...
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François Marcellin Certain de Canrobert (French pronunciation: [fʁɑ̃swa maʁsəlɛ̃ sɛʁtɛ̃ də kɑ̃ʁɔbɛʁ]; born François Certain Canrobert; 27 June 1809 –...
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House of Rochechouart (redirect from Marie de Rochechouart de Mortemart)
Louis-Victor-Léon de Rochechouart, Histoire de la Maison de Rochechouart, 1859 Ambroise Ledru, La Maison de Faudoas, 1862 Robert de Lasteyrie, Etude sur...
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military governor of Paris in 1812, when pro-Republic General Claude François de Malet launched a coup while Napoleon was pursuing a disastrous campaign...
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Jean Mairet (redirect from Jean de Mairet)
deaths of his aristocratic patrons, first the duc de Montmorency (1632) and then François de Faudoas, comte de Belin, that made Mairet give up writing for the...
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Hercule, Duke of Montbazon (redirect from Hercule de Rohan, duc de Montbazon)
children, of whom two, François and Anne, would have progeny. François founded the Soubise line of the Rohan's and married his cousin Anne de Rohan-Chabot (later...
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Philippe François Marie Leclerc de Hauteclocque (22 November 1902 – 28 November 1947) was a Free-French general during the Second World War. He became...
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Jean-François-Auguste Moulin1 (French pronunciation: [ʒɑ̃ fʁɑ̃swa oɡyst mulɛ̃]; 14 March 1752 – 12 March 1810) was a general of the French Revolution and...
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defeat on the French. Marmont and his deputy commander Comte Jean-Pierre François Bonet were both struck by shrapnel very early in the battle. Marmont was...
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comte de Miolans, seigneur de Chévrières, baron de Saint-Chaumont, lieutenant général of the government of Lyonnais. Jean-François de Faudoas d'Averton...
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Jean-Andoche Junot (category Names inscribed under the Arc de Triomphe)
However, he was badly injured shortly afterwards in a duel with General François Lanusse, and was captured by a British ship in October 1799 while returning...
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1789 married Florence Constance de Rochechouart-Faudoas, daughter of Aimeric count of Faudoas. Marie-Antoinette de Quelen de La Vauguyon (1771–1847), on 13...
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(1895) Histoire de l'Institut des écoles charitables du Saint-Enfant-Jésus, dit de Saint-Maur, suivie de la vie de la révérende mère de Faudoas, supérieure...
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battle of Escola with "a sombre kind of energy". He succeeded Jacques François Dugommier as army commander after that general's death at the Battle of...
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Émile Auguste François Thomas Zurlinden (3 November 1837 – 9 March 1929) was a French Army general and politician. An Alsatian by birth, he distinguished...
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wife Charlotte Gouffier de Boisy, he was an enfant d'honneur in the household of the dauphin François, son of King François I. The young prince made...
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André Masséna (redirect from Andre, Duke de Rivoli, Prince D'essling Massena)
praised Masséna with the name l'enfant chéri de la victoire. The president of the Directory in Paris, Jean-François Rewbell, was also congratulatory: "The Executive...
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Gilbert, Count of Montpensier (redirect from Gilbert, Comte de Montpensier)
Charles III, Duke of Bourbon (17 February 1490 – 6 May 1527, in battle), François, Duke of Châtellerault (1492 – 13 September 1515, Battle of Marignano)...
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Colonel. He returned to France in 1850. In the Crimean War, he served under François Certain Canrobert as general of brigade. For his brilliant conduct at the...
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Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé, 8th Duke of Brissac (14 February 1734 – 9 September 1792), was a French military commander and peer of France. He was...
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dangerous against the French colonial presence in Algiers. General Marquis de Faudoas arrived with Colonel Schauenburg and their horsemen on the night of 6...
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Henri Gouraud (category Collège Stanislas de Paris alumni)
He graduated in 1890 and joined the Troupes de marine. He expected to be posted overseas as the Troupes de marine served in the French colonial empire...
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of La Guerche: 1580 François d'O: 158.–1589 Charles-Emmanuel de Savoie: 1589–1590 Jean-Francois de Faudoas: 1590–1594 Charles II de Cossé, Marshal of the...
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Marie-Pierre Kœnig (category Recipients of the Croix de Guerre 1914–1918 (France))
Marie Joseph Pierre François Kœnig or Koenig (10 October 1898 – 2 September 1970) was a French general during World War II during which he commanded a...
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