François Joseph Paul, Comte de Grasse, Marquis of Grasse-Tilly, SMOM (13 September 1722 – 11 January 1788) was a French Navy officer and nobleman. He is...

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

Louis de Bourbon, Comte de Soissons (May 1604 – 6 July 1641) was the son of Charles de Bourbon, Count of Soissons and his wife, Anne de Montafié, Countess...

Netherlands) in 1794 and met with William Pitt the Younger in London, where he published his État de la France au mois de mai 1794, predicting the fall of Maximilien...

de" . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton. Pitts 2000, p. 271. Vrignault 1965, p. 119. Père Anselme (1726). "Ducs de Bourbon:...

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...

Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne (titular Duke of Bouillon, jure uxoris, comte de Montfort et Negrepelisse, vicomte de Turenne, Castillon, et Lanquais) (28...

António de Oliveira Salazar GCTE GCSE GColIH GCIC (28 April 1889 – 27 July 1970) was a Portuguese statesman, academic, and economist who served as Prime...

governor of Basse (lower) Auvergne, and then, upon the capture of the comte de Soissons he was established as governor of Bretagne. This role brought...

Charles André Joseph Marie de Gaulle (22 November 1890 – 9 November 1970) was a French military officer and statesman who led the Free French Forces against...

Chisholm 1911. Pitts, Vincent Joseph. La Grande Mademoiselle at the Court of France, p. 2 Campagnes de Charles IV, duc de Lorraine et de Bar, en Allemagne...

for her. In 1783, at seventeen, she was courted by William Pitt the Younger and by Comte de Guibert, whose conversation, she thought, was the most far-ranging...

was born in Goutz-les-Tartas (Gers), and died in Chadieu, near Vic-le-Comte (Puy-de-Dôme). His life and actions in the service of the French monarchy inspired...

the Indian Ocean Squadron under the command of Anne Antoine, Comte d'Aché. On 20 October Pitt reached Quedah on the coast of Malaya. This was the rendezvous...

Jean-Balthazar d'Adhémar or Azémar de Montfalcon (Nîmes 1736 – Meulan 1790) was a French soldier and diplomat. Styled Comte d'Adhémar after 1767, he was French...

re-written, and used the scandal as the basis for rhetorical attacks on William Pitt the Younger whom he believed was involved. On 27 March on the proposal of...

from the Marquis de Lafayette and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau and a French naval force commanded by the Comte de Grasse over the...

to frenetic land purchases in the Île de France. The two families rivalry would come to a head over the comté de Dammartin. The last holder Françoise d'Anjou...

decisively defeated the army of the Prince de Soubise at the Battle of Rossbach. The new British Prime Minister, William Pitt, named a new commander, Duke Ferdinand...

Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist,...

Sánchez March 8, 2016 (2016-03-08) Ingredients: Appetizer: uova da raviolo, comté cheese, fresh bacon bits, eel Entrée: Italian olive salad, Cornish hens...

p. 280. Garrisson, Marguerite de Valois, p. 39–43. Williams, p. 39. Craveri, p. 69. Quoted in Williams, p. 60. Pitts, Henri IV of France: His Reign and...

acknowledge the old Whig's talents. When, in 1790, the comte de Mirabeau disparaged Fox in Pitt's presence, Pitt stopped him, saying, "You have never seen the...

Florida to produce its pencils. Faber-Castell is well known for its brand of PITT Artist pens. The pens, used by comic and manga artists such as Adam Hughes...

Treacherous World of Alessandro de' Medici. Oxford University Press. Pitts, Vincent Joseph (1993). The man who sacked Rome: Charles de Bourbon, constable of France...

allies. Pitt was head of the government from 1756 to 1761, and even after that the British continued his strategy. It proved completely successful. Pitt had...

Count of Artois. Puisaye also negotiated with British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger in London, requesting Britain's support for a royalist invasion...

Saint-Seine-sur-Vigeanne and the seigneur de Monluc (who would go on to be the lieutenant-general of Guyenne) lost the comté de Gaure. In total the value of the...

unofficially, to London to avert war, and he was cordially received by Pitt and Grenville. After his first visit, he persuaded the then foreign minister...

best-dressed person in the world by Vanity Fair, alongside David Beckham and Brad Pitt. However, Sarkozy has also been named as the third worst-dressed person in...