Éléonor Marie du Maine du Bourg
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Eléonor Marie du Maine (14 September 1655, Changy - 15 January 1739, Strasbourg), count of Le Bourg, baron of Espinasse was a French nobleman and general.


Life

He was made a page in the grande Écurie du roi in 1671, before joining the musketeers in 1673. He then moved to the
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. He fought his first campaigns in Franche-Comté, distinguishing himself in the 1674 attack on
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. He also took part in the sieges of Condé, Bouchain (Nord),
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, Saint-Omer,
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, Kehl, and Strasbourg. He became
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of the Régiment Royal Cavalerie in December 1701 and was made governor of the province of
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in 1713. In 1724 he was made a
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. His first wife's name is unknown — he married his second in Strasbourg on 14 January 1729, namely Marie Anne de Klinglin, elder sister of François-Joseph de Klinglin, "préteur royal" of Strasbourg, and of Christophe de Klinglin, first president of the Conseil souverain d'Alsace.


References


Sources

* Viton, Nicolas (1834). ''De l'ancienne France de Saint-Allais''. p. Page 499. * Revue d'Alsace n° 132 (2006). ''L'Alsace : un très riche patrimoine archéologique''
Diplomatie et religion en Alsace au temps du cardinal de Fleury (1726-1743)
pp. 129–173. 1655 births 1739 deaths Barons of France Counts of France Marshals of France {{France-noble-stub