Charles Philippe d'Albert, 4th Duke of Luynes (30 July 1695 – 2 November 1758) held the title

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from 1712 to 1758. He wrote an important

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of life at the court of

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Early life

Charles-Philippe was a grandson of Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes the

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. He was a great-great-grandson of the first Duke of Luynes, Charles d'Albert, and his wife

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, one of the leading members of the

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. His grandmother Jeanne-Marie Colbert was a daughter of the famous

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, Louis XIV's minister of finance. His great-aunt was Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes, the mistress of

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. A second cousin was Maria Vittoria Francesca of Savoy who lived in France and was the wife of Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan.

Career

Luynes was a

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and cavalry officer. He was part of the intimate group that she called her "gentlefolk" (''honnêtes gens''). He wrote a journal of historic events and facts about the court, a work which has no pretension of literary merit, but is valuable as a document for the study of the aristocratic society of his time.

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, ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p. 1286.

Personal life

He was twice married. His first marriage took place on 24 February 1710 to Louise-Léontine de Bourbon (1696–1721), ''Princess of Neuchatel'', a granddaughter of Louis de Bourbon, Count of Soissons, and

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(heiress of Jeanne-Françoise de Coeme, Lady of Lucé and Bonnétable). Before her death in 1721, they were the parents of: * Marie Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes (1717–1771), who married Thérèse Pélagie d'Albert in 1735. After her death, he married Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli. In 1732, Charles-Philippe married Marie Brulart; she was the widow of the marquis de Charost, and became lady-in-waiting to the Queen

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, the consort of King

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. He died at the

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and was buried at the

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Descendants

Through his son Marie Charles, he was a grandfather of Louis Joseph Charles Amable d'Albert de Luynes, Duke of Luynes (1748–1807), who had an active military and political career like his father.

Ancestry

References

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