Honneurs De La Cour
The Honneurs de la Cour (Honors of the Court) were ceremonious presentations to the sovereign at the Palace of Versailles, Royal Court of France that were formal for women but more casual for men. It was an honour granted only to the families of Noblesse d'épée, ancient nobility. It allowed them to approach the King of France, King and the Queen of France, Queen of France. Overview The Honors of the Court "were the most prestigious noble honour of the 18th century, meant to honour the most ancient and representing noble families".Régis Valette, ''Catalogue de la noblesse française au XXIe siècle'', éd. Robert Laffont, Paris, 2007 Formally such presentations were only granted to noble families able to prove a lineage dating back to 1400 A.D. without tracks of ennoblement. However, the king could grant exemptions to families that had been dedicated to serve him. He could also refuse a valid candidate with sufficient nobility whose family was not involved enough in the king's w ...
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Versailles Palace
The Palace of Versailles ( ; french: Château de Versailles ) is a former royal residence built by King Louis XIV located in Versailles, about west of Paris, France. The palace is owned by the French Republic and since 1995 has been managed, under the direction of the French Ministry of Culture, by the Public Establishment of the Palace, Museum and National Estate of Versailles. Some 15,000,000 people visit the palace, park, or gardens of Versailles every year, making it one of the most popular tourist attractions in the world. Louis XIII built a simple hunting lodge on the site of the Palace of Versailles in 1623 and replaced it with a small château in 1631–34. Louis XIV expanded the château into a palace in several phases from 1661 to 1715. It was a favorite residence for both kings, and in 1682, Louis XIV moved the seat of his court and government to Versailles, making the palace the ''de facto'' capital of France. This state of affairs was continued by Kings Louis XV an ...
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Gironde
Gironde ( US usually, , ; oc, Gironda, ) is the largest department in the Nouvelle-Aquitaine region of Southwestern France. Named after the Gironde estuary, a major waterway, its prefecture is Bordeaux. In 2019, it had a population of 1,623,749.Populations légales 2019: 33 Gironde
INSEE The famous region is in Gironde. It has six arrondissements, making it one of the departments with the most arrondissement ...
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Foucauld
Charles Eugène de Foucauld de Pontbriand, Viscount of Foucauld (15 September 1858 – 1 December 1916) was a French soldier, explorer, geographer, ethnographer, Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg people in the Sahara in Algeria. He was assassinated in 1916. His inspiration and writings led to the founding of the Little Brothers of Jesus among other religious congregations. Orphaned at the age of six, de Foucauld was brought up by his maternal grandfather, Colonel Beaudet de Morlet. He joined the Saint-Cyr Military Academy. Upon leaving the academy he opted to join the cavalry. He thus went to the Saumur Cavalry School, where he was known for his childish sense of humour, whilst living a life of debauchery enabled by an inheritance he received after his grandfather's death. He was assigned to the 4th Chasseurs d'Afrique Regiment. At the age of twenty-three, he decided to resign in order to explore Morocco by impersonating a Jew. The quality of his works e ...
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House Of Ficquelmont
The House of Ficquelmont is the name of a noble family from Lorraine dating back to the 14th century whose filiation is established with Henry de Ficquelmont, knight, dead before 1386.Henri Jougla de Morenas, ''Grand Armorial de France'', tome III, 1935 page 289. This family produced different branches in France, Austria, Belgium, and became extinct in 1948 in the male line with Louis-Charles de Ficquelmont de Vyle and in the female line in 1991 with countess Ghislaine de Ficquelmont de Vyle. Origins The origins of the Ficquelmont Family is the lordship of Ficquelmont (currently Thumeréville) in Lorraine, near Briey The Ficquelmont family is known since 1138, with Gérard de Ficquelmont who gave a donation in 1138 but its filiation is established without doubts only since Henry de Ficquelmont, knight, dead before 1386. According to the genealogist Charles Poplimont, who wrote a genealogy of the de Ficquelmont family in ''La Belgique Héraldique'' (1866), Henri de Ficquelmont, ...
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Faucigny
Faucigny ( it, Fossigni) is a commune in the Haute-Savoie department in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes (ARA; ; frp, Ôvèrgne-Rôno-Ârpes; oc, Auvèrnhe Ròse Aups; it, Alvernia-Rodano-Alpi) is a region in southeast-central France created by the 2014 territorial reform of French regions; it resulted from the merger of Au ... Regions of France, region in south-eastern France. Historically, Faucigny was a region in Savoy which included the area of the modern ''département in France, département'' of Haute Savoie and the communes of France, municipalities of Chamonix, Argentière, and Les Houches. Geography In the Faucigny region, the river Arve flows through the low-lying, agricultural Arve Valley. The village of Faucigny is at an elevation of approximately 639 m., northeast of La Roche-sur-Foron, and about 20 km. southeast of the Geneva, city of Geneva. The village lies on a river terrace on the eastern side of the Arve Valley. History The fertile ...
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D'Estaing Family
The d'Estaing family was one of the most notable noble families of the Rouergue and Auvergne regions of France. They originated from Estaing, in the modern Aveyron department, where their châtelain was first mentioned in 1028. The house of d'Estaing became extinct with the death of Admiral Charles Henri d'Estaing (in 1794), who had no son as heir. The genealogy of the d'Estaing family has not documented any connection to the family of Giscard d'Estaing, even if the latter was permitted add the name to its own in 1922. History In 1214, at the Battle of Bouvines, Déodat, known as Tristan, was said to have saved the life of King Philippe Auguste and given him his horse. In recognition, the king gave Déodat the right to adopt the arms of France, keeping the golden chief that covered his former arms. Recent historians have not been able to confirm the veracity of this legend. The family produced prelates, officers, Knights of Malta and numerous notable figures. It received ...
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Durfort (family)
Durfort is the name of a French noble family, distinguished in French and English history. It originated as feudal lords of Durfort, Tarn, a village of south-western France. Middle Ages Though earlier lords are known, the pedigree of the family is only clearly traceable to * Arnaud de Durfort ( fl. 1305), who acquired the fief of Duras by his marriage with a niece of Pope Clement V. * Gaillard I de Durfort (died 1356/7), son of preceding * Gaillard II de Durfort (died 1422), son of preceding, seneschal of Gascony *Gaillard III de Durfort (died 1452), son of preceding, seneschal of Landes * Gaillard IV de Durfort (died 1482) 17th century The greatness of the family dates, however, from the 17th century. *Guy Aldonce (1605–1665), marquis de Duras and comte de Rozan, had, by his wife Elizabeth de la Tour d'Auvergne, sister of Marshal Turenne, six sons, three of whom played a distinguished part. ** Jacques Henri, the eldest son (1625–1704), was governor of Franche-Comtà ...
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Drée
Drée () is a commune in the Côte-d'Or department in eastern France. Population See also *Communes of the Côte-d'Or department The following is a list of the 698 Communes of France, communes of the Côte-d'Or Departments of France, department of France. The communes cooperate in the following Communes of France#Intercommunality, intercommunalities (as of 2020):

Diesbach De Belleroche
Diesbach may refer to: * Anna de Diesbach (1844–1920), a French rose breeder * De Diesbach Castle, a castle in the Swiss canton of Fribourg * Diesbach de Belleroche, a French family granted the Honneurs de la Cour in 1773 * Diesbach (Glarus), a village in the Swiss canton of Glarus * Diesbach (patrician family), a patrician family originally from the Swiss city of Bern * Johann Jacob Diesbach, an 18th-century German dye maker, best known for creating the dye Prussian blue See also * Diessbach bei Büren Diessbach bei Büren is a municipality in the Seeland administrative district in the canton of Bern in Switzerland. Diessbach has a reformed church, and is the center of the parish which includes the municipalities Busswil bei Büren, Büet ...

House Of Croÿ
The House of Croÿ () is a family of European mediatized nobility, which held a seat in the Imperial Diet from 1486, and was elevated to the rank of Princes of the Holy Roman Empire in 1594. In 1533 they became Dukes of Arschot (in Belgium) and in 1598 Dukes of Croy in France. In 1913, the family had branches in Belgium, France, Austria and Prussia. This dynastic house, which originally adopted its name from the Château de Crouy-Saint-Pierre in French Picardy, claimed descent from the Hungarian Prince Marc, (if true, he was likely a grandson of Prince Géza) who allegedly settled in France in 1147, where he married an heiress to the barony of Croÿ. The Croÿ family rose to prominence under the Dukes of Burgundy. Later, they became actively involved in the complex politics of France, Spain, Austria, and the Low Countries. Among the more illustrious members of the House of Croÿ were two bishop-dukes of Cambrai, two cardinals (one being also the Archbishop of Toledo and another ...
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Coucy (noble Family)
Coucy is the name or part of the name of several communes in France: * Coucy-la-Ville, in the Aisne ''département'', very close to * Coucy-le-Château-Auffrique, in the Aisne ''département'', location of: ** Château de Coucy ** Lord of Coucy, a medieval lordship linked to the Château (see below) * Coucy, Ardennes, in the Ardennes ''département'' * Coucy-lès-Eppes in the Aisne ''département'' People *Marie de Coucy (c.1218–1285), Queen-consort of Scotland, wife to Alexander II of Scotland, daughter to Enguerrand III below. *Robert De Coucy or Courcy, architect of Reims Cathedral, and his father of the same name. Lords of Coucy: *Enguerrand I, Lord of Coucy (1080–1116) *Thomas, Lord of Coucy (1116–1130) and Count of Amiens. *Enguerrand II, Lord of Coucy (1130–1149) *Ralph I, Lord of Coucy (1149–1191) *Enguerrand III, Lord of Coucy (1191–1246) *Raoul II, Lord of Coucy (1246–1250) *Enguerrand IV, Lord of Coucy (1250–1311) brother of Raoul II *Enguerrand V, Lor ...
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