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4 unusual facts about Duke of Richelieu


Duke of Richelieu

# 1715–1788: Louis François Armand de Vignerot du Plessis (1696–1788), 3rd Duke of Richelieu, marshal of France, son of the former.

Duke of Richelieu was a title in the French nobility.

Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon

Among her co-conspirators were the Duke of Richelieu and Melchior de Polignac.

Ponty vineyards

In the 18th century, his heir, the Duke of Richelieu had an Italian-style mansion built on the hills of Canon Fronsac.


Ange Hyacinthe Maxence, baron de Damas

After his father Charles's death at Quiberon, Maxence de Damas, maternally a great-grandson of the Irish war hero General Sarsfield, was led by his uncle the Duke of Richelieu, who presented him to Czar Paul I to join the military cadet school in Saint Petersburg.


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