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2 unusual facts about Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel


Hetmans of Ukrainian Cossacks

Vouched by Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel, Yuriy Khmelnytsky was freed from the Ottoman captivity, appointed and along with Pasha Ibragim was sent to Ukraine fight the Moscow forces of Samoilovych and Romadanovsky.

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Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel (1635—1685), French ambassador to the Ottoman court


Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel

His father Édouard Olier, secretary to the King and councillor of the Parlement, had obtained a marquisate for his lands at Nointel near Clermont in the Beauvaisis.

The embassy was fitted out with unusual grandeur and accompanied by four ships of the line with a detachment of marines and a troop of twenty-seven noble gentlemen, well representing France.


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