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François-Marie, 1st duke de Broglie: Quick Facts

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Born January 11, 1671
Died May 22, 1745 (aged 74)
House / Dynasty Broglie family
Role In War of the Austrian Succession • War of the Spanish Succession
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Saxe, detail of a portrait by Maurice-Quentin de La Tour; in the Staatliche Museum, Dresden, Ger.
Maurice, count de Saxe
French general
Villars, Claude-Louis-Hector, duc de
Claude-Louis-Hector, duke de Villars
French general
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Louis-François de Bourbon, prince de Conti
French prince
Louis-Joseph, duc de Vendôme
Louis Joseph, duke of Vendôme
French general
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Charles Fouquet, duke de Belle-Isle
French marshal
Louis-François, duc de Boufflers
Louis-François, duke de Boufflers
French general
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Victor-François, 2nd duke de Broglie
marshal of France
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Adrien-Maurice, 3 duke de Noailles
French duke
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Anne-Jules, 2 duke de Noailles
French duke
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François de Neufville, duc de Villeroi
French courtier
James Fitzjames, duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed, engraving, 17th century.
James Fitzjames, duke of Berwick-upon-Tweed
English noble and marshal of France
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Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
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Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres showing Joan of Arc in armor holding a banner at an altar during the coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, with figures praying behind her.
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Portrait of Napoleon III in a dark military uniform with gold epaulettes, a red sash, and medals, set against a deep red background. Painted by Hippolyte Flandrin.
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Francis I
Francis I
king of France