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    Étienne François de Choiseul, Marquis of Stainville, Duke of Choiseul, KOHS, OGF (28 June 1719 – 8 May 1785) was a French military officer, diplomat and...
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  • Claude de Choiseul (1632–1711), marshal of France in 1693 Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), French officer, diplomat and statesman François Joseph...
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  • Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul (28 June 1719 – 8 May 1785) married Louise Honorine Crozat no children. Jacques Philippe de Choiseul,...
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  • the colonizing expedition conducted in 1763 at the request of Étienne François de Choiseul, poorly prepared, was a resounding failure. Similarly, because...
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    Lieutenant-Général of the King's armies on 25 July 1762 by Étienne-François de Choiseul-Beaupré-Stainville, Duc de Choiseul, he was appointed Gouverneur militaire of Haguenau...
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    diplomat, etc. : Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), ambassador then Secretary of State to Louis XV César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin (1712–1785)...
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    soon obtained so great a reputation that he was instructed by Étienne François de Choiseul in 1770 to draw up the decree authorizing the marriage of Protestants...
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    Château d'Amboise (category Castles in Centre-Val de Loire)
    duc de Lauzun. Louis XV made a gift of it to his minister Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, who had recently purchased the Château de Chanteloup...
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    daughter of François Joseph, Marquis de Choiseul, Marquis of Stainville, and Marie Louise Bassompierre, and sister of Étienne François, duc de Choiseul. Unmarried...
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    of the line") was a subscription effort launched by Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul and secretary of State to the Navy in 1761 as an effort...
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  • Étienne Wenger (born 1952), education theorist Étienne François, duc de Choiseul (1719–1785), French military officer, statesman and diplomat Étienne...
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    Cabriole leg Étienne François, Duc de Choiseul Suppression of the Jesuits Louis heel, a shoe heel shape named after Louis XV. Mesdames de France Madame...
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    and cello. Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, acquired the hôtel by his marriage in 1750 to Louise-Honorine Crozat, daughter of Louis-François Crozat, marquis...
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    relative, Etienne François, duc de Choiseul, who was childless. In 1778, he married his cousin, Marie Stephanie de Choiseul, daughter of Etienne's younger...
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    importance. It was named by Louis de Bougainville after the French Foreign Secretary, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul. The name is pronounced "Chisel"...
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    from his elder brother Étienne François, duc de Choiseul) and baron of Dommanges. Jacques Philippe came from the House of Choiseul, a noble family dating...
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    André-Hercule de Fleury (22 June or 26 June 1653 – 29 January 1743) was a French Catholic prelate who served as Bishop of Fréjus and as the chief minister...
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    basis of the Gallery of Views. Between 1753 and 1757, Count Étienne François de Choiseul, Louis XV's ambassador to Rome in the 1740s, commissioned four...
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    Marshal of France. In 1771, he was called by Louis XV to replace Duc de Choiseul to the position of Secretary of State for War. In the three years of...
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    Madame de Pompadour to secure the Franco-Austrian alliance, and they also joined in their support of Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul. Élisabeth...
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    to turn to painting. In 1754 he left for Rome in the train of Étienne-François de Choiseul, son of his father's employer, who had been named French ambassador...
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    Louise Honorine Crozat (1734 – 1801) was the duchess of Choiseul as the wife of Étienne François. She was the heiress of the grand fortune left by her grandfather...
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    of Jacques Philippe de Choiseul, Duke of Stainville, and Thérèse de Clermont, and the niece of Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, the chief minister of...
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    (principal ministres) of certain kings of France nonetheless led the government de facto. During the First Republic, the arrangements for governance changed...
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    future Louis XVI. This marriage had been declared by Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, advisory of the Dévot party and therefore of the Mesdames...
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    XV's most powerful Minister, Étienne François, Duc de Choiseul. Étienne François wanted to use the stones from Château de la Bourdaisière for the construction...
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  • Augustine Françoise de Choiseul, also known as Mademoiselle St Cyr and Mademoiselle de Choiseul (8 October 1697-5 July 1728), was a French aristocrat...
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  • Choiseul, after Étienne-François de Choiseul, minister of Louis XV Île du Roland, from the Rolland, ship of the second expedition Îles de Boynes, named...
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  • relative, Étienne François, duc de Choiseul, exposed the plot to Pompadour, who in turn had the king banish Charlotte Rosalie de Choiseul-Beaupré from...
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    she is hard to teach". Under the recommendation of Étienne François de Choiseul, Duke of Choiseul, a strong supporter of her prospective marriage, Maria...
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