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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.
Alfred de La Rochefoucauld (1819–1883), 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon who married Isabelle Nivière, a daughter of Baron Laurent Antoine Isidore Nivière and Marie Léontine Françoise Siméon, in 1851. [8] Georges de La Rochefoucauld (1828–1861), styled Count of La Rochefoucauld who died unmarried.
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 ...
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 House of La Rochefoucauld is one of France's ancient noble families, with origins dating back to the 10th century.The family's lineage begins with Foucauld I of La Roche [] (973–1047), the first Lord of La Roche, later known as La Rochefoucauld (Roche + Foucauld), and possibly the son of Adémar of La Roche [] (also known as Amaury or Esmerin; circa 952 – before 1037), Lord of La Roche.
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 was born on 27 June 1757 at the Château de la Boislivière in Apremont, Vendée.He was the third son of Jacques-Louis I de La Rochefoucauld (1717–1798), Lord of Beaulieu, and Suzanne Poictevin du Plessis-Landry de La Rochette (1725–1793).
François de La Rochefoucauld, 2nd Duke of La Rochefoucauld, Prince de Marcillac (/ ˈ r ɒ ʃ f uː k oʊ /; French: [fʁɑ̃swa d(ə) la ʁɔʃfuko]; 15 September 1613 – 17 March 1680) was an accomplished French moralist of the era of French Classical literature and author of Maximes and Memoirs, the only two works of his dense literary œuvre published.