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Facts

Born 1081 • near Paris • France
Died January 13, 1151 (aged 70)
Title / Office abbot (1122)
Movement / Style Gothic architecture

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Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.
Basilica of Saint-Denis
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Hincmar of Reims
French theologian
Jean du Bellay, engraving by an unknown French artist, 16th century
Jean du Bellay
French cardinal and diplomat
Duprat, detail from a lithograph, 1527
Antoine Duprat
French chancellor and cardinal
Stone effigy of Eleanor of Aquitaine on her tomb, shown lying down and holding an open book, with traces of blue, red, and white paint on her robes and veil.
Eleanor of Aquitaine
queen consort of France and England
Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
French aristocrat
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Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme
French statesman
Commynes, portrait drawing by Jacques Le Bouco, 16th century; in the Municipal Library Arras, Fr.
Philippe de Commynes
French statesman
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Georges de La Trémoille
French noble
Maurepas, engraving by Dupin de Franlieu, 18th century
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas
French secretary of state
Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.
Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul
French general
Jeannin, engraving by Robert Nanteuil
Pierre Jeannin
French statesman
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Enguerrand de Marigny
French chamberlain
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Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny et de Buzançais
French statesman
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Nicolas-François, Count Mollien
French statesman
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Gilbert Motier de La Fayette
marshal of France
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Robert Le Maçon
chancellor of France
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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

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