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La Rochefoucauld (French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃfuko]; Limousin: La Ròcha Focaud) is a former commune in the Charente department in southwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it was merged into the new commune La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois .
The expedition was led by French Admiral Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Duc d'Anville. The commissary general in charge of supplies was François Bigot . The fitting-out of this fleet was slow and difficult, and it did not set sail from Île-d'Aix , France until 22 June 1746.
Jean-Baptiste Louis Frédéric de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, Duke of Anville (17 August 1707 – 16 September 1746), Marquis of Roucy, who was made the Duke of Anville by King Louis XV of France and pursued a military career in the French galley corps. He is best known for leading the French fleet on the disastrous Duc d'Anville Expedition to ...
1 French Land Register data, which excludes lakes, ponds, glaciers > 1 km 2 (0.386 sq mi or 247 acres) and river estuaries. La Rochefoucauld-en-Angoumois ( French pronunciation: [la ʁɔʃfuko ɑ̃.n‿ɑ̃ɡumwa] , literally La Rochefoucauld in Angoumois ; Occitan : La Ròcha Focaud d'Engolmés ) is a commune in the department of Charente ...
After his father was killed at Saint-Yrieix by the Catholic League on 15 March 1591, he inherited the title Count of La Rochefoucauld which he remained until 22 April 1622, [4] when King Louis XIII [5] raised his county of La Rochefoucauld to a dukedom with the influence of his mother Queen Marie de' Medici having attended her coronation on 14 May 1610.
La Rochefoucauld was born into the House of La Rochefoucauld, one of the oldest and most famous French noble families, originating in La Roche in the 10th-11th centuries. . He was the only son of Jean-Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld de Roye, who was killed in the 1746 Duc d'Anville expedition, and Marie-Louise-Nicole de La Rochefoucauld, eldest daughter of Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, 5th Duke ...
Through his son François, he was a grandfather of Henri François de La Rochefoucauld (1823–1893), Lord of Challain-la-Potherie, in Maine-et-Loire (who died without issue); and Marie de La Rochefoucauld, who died in 1868 at the Château de Challain-la-Potherie. Henri's heir, the Viscount of Rochebouët, decided not to keep the extensive ...
Upon the death of his father in 1728, he became the 5th Duke of La Rochefoucauld.Due to him only having daughters, he was requested, and was granted, permission by the Pope and by letters patent of the French King to transmit the ducal title to the male issue through the female line on the condition that his daughter marry a member of the La Rochefoucauld family.