Robert Le Maçon: Quick Facts

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Georges de La Trémoille

French noble

Gilbert Motier de La Fayette

marshal of France

Suger

French abbot

Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour

French aristocrat

Hincmar of Reims

French theologian

Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme

French statesman

Philippe de Commynes

French statesman

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas

French secretary of state

Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul

French general

Jean du Bellay

French cardinal and diplomat

Pierre Jeannin

French statesman

Enguerrand de Marigny

French chamberlain

Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny et de Buzançais

French statesman

Nicolas-François, Count Mollien

French statesman

Antoine Duprat

French chancellor and cardinal

Concino Concini, marquis d’Ancre

Italian diplomat

Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi

French military commander

Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin

French general and diplomat

Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin

French diplomat and politician

Melchior de Polignac

French clergyman and statesman