Louis-Léon de Brancas (3 July 1733 – 9 October 1824), 3rd duc de
Lauraguais, 6th duc de
Villars, was a French general and author, and a member of the
French Academy of Sciences
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He was the son of Louis de Brancas-Villars and Adelaide-Genevieve d'O, Marquise de Franconville.
He married Elisabeth-Pauline de Gand, Princess d'Isenghien, in 1755.
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1733 births
1824 deaths
18th-century French writers
18th-century French male writers
French generals
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Members of the Chamber of Peers of the Bourbon Restoration
Burials at Père Lachaise Cemetery
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