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Honoré Armand de Villars

Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2e duc de Villars (4 October 1702, Paris - May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain, Knight of the Golden Fleece, Viscount of Melun, Marquis of la Melle, Count of Rochemiley, was a French nobleman, soldier and politician.

He was the son of Claude Louis Hector de Villars and of Jeanne Angélique Rocque de Varengeville, and the grandson of Pierre de Villars.

Bachaumont noted, in his Mémoires (5 May 1770) that "the Duke of Villars was taxed with a vice that he had made fashionable at court, and that had brought him very wide renown, as can be seen in la Pucelle".



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