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In horology, a complication is any feature of a timepiece beyond the display of hours, minutes and seconds. A timepiece indicating only hours, minutes and seconds is known as a simple movement . Common complications include date or day-of-the-week indicators, alarms, chronographs (stopwatches), and automatic winding mechanisms.
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 Château de Verteuil is recorded in 1080 as the property of the Lord of La Rochefoucauld. [4] Since then the castle has almost always belonged to a member of this family. [1] 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]
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).
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François XII de La Rochefoucauld (1747–1827) (son of preceding), 7th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, created 1st Duke of Liancourt in 1765 and inherited the Duke of La Rochefoucauld title from his cousin in 1792; [d] married Félicité-Sophie de Lannion in 1764.
Élisabeth Louise de La Rochefoucauld French duchess 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 .
Robert de La Rochefoucauld was born in Paris, one of 10 children in a family living in a fashionable area near the Eiffel Tower.His father, Olivier de La Rochefoucauld, and his mother, the daughter of the Duke of Maillé, were members of the French nobility; he used the aristocratic title of count in his later years.