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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 ...
Alexandrine Charlotte "Rosalie" de Rohan-Chabot (1763–1839), the duchess of La Rochefoucauld was a French duchess and letter writer, known for the events of her life during the French Revolution.
Jean Baptiste de La Rochefoucauld, Duke of Anville; François de La Rochefoucauld, 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld; François de La Rochefoucauld (writer) Frédéric Jérôme de La Rochefoucauld; Louis Alexandre de La Rochefoucauld, 6th Duke of La Rochefoucauld; François III de La Rochefoucauld
François VII de La Rochefoucauld, 3rd Duke of La Rochefoucauld [3] (15 June 1634 – 11 January 1714), son of the author of the maxims Francois VI de La Rochefoucauld, was a French nobleman during the reign of King Louis XIV, one of his closest friends, who also created him Grand Huntsman of France in 1679.
La Rochefoucauld was born on 4 February 1874 at the Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville at 47 Rue de Varenne in the 7th arrondissement of Paris. [1] He was the youngest son of Sosthène II de La Rochefoucauld , 4th Duke of Doudeauville , and, his second wife, Princess Marie Georgine Sophie Hedwige Eugenie of Ligne (1843–1911).
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 ...
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.