Jean Balue: Quick Facts

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Born	c.1421 • France
Died	1491 • Ancona • Papal States

Ney, Michel

Michel Ney

French duke

Alfred Dreyfus

Alfred Dreyfus

French military officer

Pierre Laval.

Pierre Laval

French politician and statesman

Caillaux

Joseph Caillaux

French statesman

Malvy

Louis-Jean Malvy

French politician

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Melchior de Polignac

French clergyman and statesman

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

Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.

Cardinal Richelieu

French cardinal and statesman

Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.

Henry IV

king of France

Jules, Cardinal Mazarin

Jules, Cardinal Mazarin

French cardinal and statesman

Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.

Suger

French abbot

Henry de Guise

Henri I de Lorraine, 3 duc de Guise

French noble

Félicité Lamennais, oil on canvas by Paulin-Guérin, 1826; in the Musée National de Versailles et des Trianons, France.

Félicité Lamennais

French priest

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Hincmar of Reims

French theologian

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Charlest, count de Montalember

French politician and historian

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Henri Lacordaire

French priest

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Charles de Lorraine, 2nd cardinal de Lorraine

French cardinal

Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century

Jean du Bellay

French cardinal and diplomat

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Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne

French cardinal and statesman

Dupanloup, engraving

Félix-Antoine-Philibert Dupanloup

bishop of Orléans