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Emmanuel De Crussol, 9th Duke Of Uzès
François-Emmanuel de Crussol, 9th Duke of Uzès (1 January 1728 – 22 March 1802), was a French aristocrat, politician and soldier. Early life Crussol was born in Paris on 11 January 1728. He was the eldest son of Charles Emmanuel de Crussol, 8th Duke of Uzès and Émilie de La Rochefoucauld (1700–1753). His younger brother, Charles-Emmanuel de Crussol, died young, and his younger sister, Charlotte-Émilie de Crussol, married, as his second wife, Louis-Marie de Rohan-Chabot, 5th Duke of Rohan. His paternal grandparents were Jean Charles de Crussol, 7th Duke of Uzès, and, his second wife, Anne Marie Marguerite de Bullion de Fervacques (a daughter of Charles-Denis de Bullion, Marquis de Bonnelles). His grandfather's first wife was Princess Anna Hippolyte Grimaldi of Monaco (daughter of the reigning Prince of Monaco, Louis I, and the former Catherine de Gramont). His aunt, Jeanne-Julie-Françoise de Crussol, was married to Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, 3rd Duke of La Va ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Duke Of Uzès
Duke is a male title either of a monarch ruling over a duchy, or of a member of royalty, or nobility. As rulers, dukes are ranked below emperors, kings, grand princes, grand dukes, and above sovereign princes. As royalty or nobility, they are ranked below grand dukes and above or below princes, depending on the country or specific title. The title comes from French ''duc'', itself from the Latin ''dux'', 'leader', a term used in republican Rome to refer to a military commander without an official rank (particularly one of Germanic or Celtic origin), and later coming to mean the leading military commander of a province. In most countries, the word ''duchess'' is the female equivalent. Following the reforms of the emperor Diocletian (which separated the civilian and military administrations of the Roman provinces), a ''dux'' became the military commander in each province. The title ''dux'', Hellenised to ''doux'', survived in the Eastern Roman Empire where it continued in sever ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François De La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke Of La Rochefoucauld
François VIII de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon (17 August 1663 – 22 April 1728) was a French nobleman who succeeded his father as Duke of La Rochefoucauld and Grand Huntsman of France in January 1714. Early life La Rochefoucauld was born on 17 August 1663. He was the son of François VII de La Rochefoucauld and Jeanne Charlotte du Plessis-Liancourt (1644–1669), daughter of Henri du Plessis-Liancourt, Count of La Roche-Guyon. His younger brother, Henri Roger de La Rochefoucauld, Marquis of Liancourt, never married. Career He succeeded his father as Grand Huntsman of France, a position in the King's Household in France during the Ancien Régime. In 1679, as a gift of the King Louis XIV for his marriage with the eldest daughter of François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois, he was created 1st Duke of La Roche-Guyon by letters of November 1679. Upon his father's death in 1714, he inherited the Duchy-peerage of La Rochefoucau ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Louis XV
Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) in 1723, the kingdom was ruled by his grand-uncle Philippe II, Duke of Orléans, as Régence, Regent of France. André-Hercule de Fleury, Cardinal Fleury was chief minister from 1726 until his death in 1743, at which time the king took sole control of the kingdom. His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Great Britain and Spain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
University Of California Press
The University of California Press, otherwise known as UC Press, is a publishing house associated with the University of California that engages in academic publishing. It was founded in 1893 to publish scholarly and scientific works by faculty of the University of California, established 25 years earlier in 1868. As the publishing arm of the University of California system, the press publishes over 250 new books and almost four dozen multi-issue journals annually, in the humanities, social sciences, and natural sciences, and maintains approximately 4,000 book titles in print. It is also the digital publisher of Collabra and Luminos open access (OA) initiatives. The press has its administrative office in downtown Oakland, California, an editorial branch office in Los Angeles, and a sales office in New York City, New York, and distributes through marketing offices in Great Britain, Asia, Australia, and Latin America. A Board consisting of senior officers of the University of Cali ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Château De Bonnelles
The Château de Bonnelles is a French castle located in the commune of Bonnelles, near Saint-Arnoult-en-Yvelines, in the Yvelines department of France. The current castle, the third on the property, in the Louis XIII style, was built between 1847 and 1849 by the architects Joseph-Antoine Froelicher and Clément Parent, was an important hunting centre when it was the favourite residence of the famous Anne de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Duchess of Uzès. History The estate is located on the border of Hurepoix and Beauce, France, Beauce. The first castle was built there towards the end of the 15th or the beginning of the 16th century, likely by the Jérôme Pétion de Villeneuve, Villeneuve family. It was enlarged in the middle of the 16th century by the addition of a new wing, while a second new wing, perpendicular to the first, was built towards the end of the 16th or the beginning of the 17th century. In the 16th century, the land of Bonnelles briefly passed to the Lamoignon family ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
