The Craon family was a French noble house, known to date back to the 11th century, originating in Craon in the Mayenne region of Anjou, northern France.
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In his testament, Maurice II bequeathed her Craon and Châtelais in the case that her three brothers predeceased her.
Bais, Mayenne, a commune of the Mayenne département, in France
Charles was born on 7 March 1793 at Sunninghill in Berkshire, while his parents, Marc Étienne Gabriel, Prince of Beauvau-Craon and Nathalie Henriette Victurnienne de Montemart, were in exile in England from the French revolution.
The Château de Fresnay or Frênay is a French castle, 1.2 km to the north of Le Bourgneuf-la-Forêt in Mayenne.
As part of the Treaty of Boulogne which ended the war of the Rough Wooing, Claude, Marquis of Mayenne, was one of six French hostages sent to England.
The small town of Jublains (or Jubleins), where Roman remains have been found, not far from the town of Mayenne to the southeast, is probably the site of the Civitas Diablintum and Noeodunum (also rendered Noiodunum).
Emmanuel Suhard was born in Brains-sur-les-Marches, Mayenne, to Emmanuel Suhard (d. May 1874) and his wife Jeanne Marsollier.
Étiemble (René Ernest Joseph Eugène Étiemble, Chinese name:安田樸), born 26 January 1909, Mayenne, Mayenne, died 7 January 2002, Vigny) was an essayist, scholar, novelist, and promoter of Middle Eastern and Asian cultures.
Devaux made several trips to Paris in the entourage of a new patron, Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon, marquise de Boufflers, who was the mistress of King-Duke Stanislas and had many other lovers, although Devaux was not one of them.
He is a member of Pommeraie family, from Britanny and serves Laval Family, and possessed land of Verger Castle of Montigné and d'Entrammes (Mayenne).
Hauterive Castle (Château d'Hauterive) is a castle located at Argentré, at department of Mayenne.
Henry of Mayenne or Henry of Lorraine, (Dijon, December 20, 1578 – Montauban, September 20, 1621) was a French noble from the House of Lorraine and more particularly from the House of Guise.
Saint-Lambert spent the winter quarter in Lunéville in 1745-46, and according to François-Antoine Devaux, he became at that time the lover of the Marquise de Boufflers.
Jean-Paul Hévin (born 1957 Méral, Mayenne, France) is a French manufacturer of high-end chocolate, who operates 4 stores in Paris, 5 in Japan and 2 in Hong Kong, headquartered in Paris.
He is the younger son of Philippe-Louis-Marc-Antoine de Noailles (1752–1819), and of the duchess Anne Louise Marie of Beauvau-Craon (1750–1834).
During the course of his career, he earned the titles Vicomte de Thouars, Prince de Talmond, Comte de Guînes et de Bénon, Baron de Sully, de Craon, de Montagu, de Mauléon et de l'Ile-Bouchard, Seigneur des Iles de Ré, de Rochefort et de Marans, and Premier Chambellan du Roi.
Madré, a commune in the Mayenne department of northwestern France
This did not stop her also collecting other lovers; nicknamed la Dame de Volupté ("the lady of delight"), she was also the mistress of the poet Jean François de Saint-Lambert, then of M. of Adhémar, of the intendant de Lorraine Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière, of the lawyer and poet François-Antoine Devaux, of the abbé Porquet, and many others.
His good looks and ready wit brought him attention; but, though endowed with immense physical strength—Madame de Craon called him "Hercule sous la figure d'Adonis" — he lived so hard that he was glad to have the opportunity to do a cure at Spa when the Belgian minister in Paris, M. van Eyck, invited Chamfort to accompany him to Germany in 1761.