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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 .
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 ...
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.
Through his younger son Aimery, he was a grandfather of Count Gabriel de La Rochefoucauld (1875–1942), who married Odile de La Chapelle de Saint-Jean de Jumilhac, a daughter of Armand Chapelle de Jumilhac, 7th Duke of Richelieu, and American heiress, Alice Heine (who became Princess consort of Monaco after marrying Albert I, Prince of Monaco ...
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 ...
The first recorded successful siege was in 1135, by Count Wulgrin II of Angoulême (c. 1089 –1140), when the castle belonged to Aymar II de la Rochefoucauld. [2] Hostilities continued between their descendants, William VI of Angoulême (died 1179) and Guy IV of la Rochefoucauld, but had ceased by 1170 when they both attended the dedication of ...
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.
Her second husband, Sosthènes I de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of Doudeauville, former aide-de-camp to King Charles X, died at the château in 1864. [ 7 ] In 1863, the Duchess brought a lawsuit against her neighbor Émile Péreire , [ 8 ] "on the ground that he had infringed her rights by giving the name of Château d'Armainvilliers to a ...