Noël-Philippe-Claude de Montboissier de Beaufort, ''marquis de Canillac'' (16 February 1695 – 31 September 1765), was an 18th-century French soldier, diplomat and

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/ref> The son of Jean-Gaspard de Montboissier, baron de Dienne (who died 1714) by his wife Marie-Claire (died 1730), daughter of Jean d'Estaing, marquis de Saillant, he was commissioned as a cavalry officer in the

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. He was promoted

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in 1719,

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in 1734 and

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in 1738. The

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also served as

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, before being posted to

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. The marquis married, in 1711, Marie-Anne-Geneviève de Maillé de La Tour-Landry (died 1742), daughter of Louis-Joseph de Maillé-Brézé, baron de Coulonces, by his wife Louise Mallier du Houssay. They had two sons and two daughters.

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