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He was the son of Jean-Frédéric de la Tour du Pin-Gouvernet, a French Minister of War. Following her marriage, she was given her mother's place as an honorary or apprentice lady-in-waiting ( Dame du Palais surnuméraire ) to Marie Antoinette , Queen of France, and served as such every sunday from 1787 until the outbreak of the French ...
Alexis Charles Henri Clérel, comte de Tocqueville [a] (29 July 1805 – 16 April 1859), [7] was a French aristocrat, diplomat, sociologist, political scientist, political philosopher, and historian. He is best known for his works Democracy in America (appearing in two volumes, 1835 and 1840) and The Old Regime and the Revolution (1856).
The French nobility (French: la noblesse française) was an aristocratic social class in France from the Middle Ages until its abolition on 23 June 1790 during the French Revolution. From 1808 [ 1 ] to 1815 during the First Empire the Emperor Napoléon bestowed titles [ 2 ] that were recognized as a new nobility by the Charter of 4 June 1814 ...
Noble families of the First French Empire (5 C) A. House of Albert (1 C, 27 P) House of Albon (3 P) House of Albret (1 C, 25 P) House of Amboise (12 P) Arenberg ...
Statue of General Thomas-Alexandre Dumas, melted down following a 1941 decision of the Nazi occupation authorities [1] Thomas-Alexandre Dumas Davy de la Pailleterie (French: [tɔmɑ alɛksɑ̃dʁ dymɑ davi də la pajət(ə)ʁi]; known as Thomas-Alexandre Dumas; 25 March 1762 – 26 February 1806) was a French general, from the French colony of Saint-Domingue, in Revolutionary France.
Joseph Arthur de Gobineau (French:; 14 July 1816 – 13 October 1882) was a French aristocrat who is best known for helping introduce scientific race theory and "racial demography", and for developing the theory of the Aryan master race and Nordicism.
This is a list of French dukedoms from the beginning ... the various Germanic kingdoms set up districts of command entrusted to representatives of the aristocracy ...
Pages in category "17th-century French nobility" The following 77 pages are in this category, out of 77 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.