Augustin-Gustave De Franquetot, 3rd Duke Of Coigny
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Augustin-Gustave De Franquetot, 3rd Duke Of Coigny
Augustin Louis Joseph Casimir Gustave de Franquetot, 3rd Duke of Coigny (4 September 1788 – 2 May 1865) was a French aristocrat and soldier. Early life Franquetot was born in 1800 into the prominent De Franquetot, Franquetot family. He was the son of François Marie Casimir de Franquetot, Marquis of Coigny (1756–1816), and Louise Gabrielle de Conflans (1743–1825). The family lived in Scotland as ''French emigration (1789–1815), Émigrés'' of the French Revolution. Both of his grandfathers were prominent soldiers and Marshal of France, Marshals of France. His maternal grandparents were Louis de Brienne de Conflans d'Armentières, Marquis of Armentières-sur-Ourcq, Armentières, and, his first wife, Adélaïde Jeanne Françoise de Bouterou d'Aubigny. His paternal grandparents were François-Henri de Franquetot de Coigny and Marie Jeanne de Bonnevie. His aunt, Antoinette Jeanne Françoise "Fanny" de Franquetot de Coigny, married Count Horace François Bastien Sébastiani de ...
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Blason François De Franquetot De Coigny
Blason is a form of poetry. The term originally comes from the heraldic term "blazon" in French heraldry, which means either the blazon, codified description of a coat of arms or the coat of arms itself. The Dutch term is , and in either Dutch or French, the term is often used to refer to the coat of arms of a chamber of rhetoric. History The term forms the root of the modern words "emblazon", which means to celebrate or adorn with heraldic markings, and "blazoner", one who emblazons. This form of poetry was used extensively by Elizabethan-era poets. The terms "blason", "blasonner", "blasonneur" were used in 16th-century French literature by poets who, following Clément Marot in 1536, practised a genre of poems that praised a woman by singling out different parts of her body and finding appropriate metaphors to compare them with. It is still being used with that meaning in literature and especially in poetry. One famous example of such a celebratory poem, irony, ironically reject ...
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