His candidacy won support of several Polish and Lithuanian magnates, many of whom were bribed by French envoy, Melchior de Polignac.
Polignac | Melchior Lotter | Melchior | Melchior de Polignac | Friedrich Melchior, Baron von Grimm | Dan Melchior | Melchior Lorck | Johann Melchior Goeze | Johann Melchior Dinglinger | Arne Melchior | Melchior Vulpius | Melchior von Diepenbrock | Melchior Russ | Melchior Meyr | Melchior d'Hondecoeter | Marie Melchior Joseph Théodore de Lagrené | Marcus Melchior | Johann Peter Melchior | Johann Melchior Molter | Ib Melchior | 1st ''duc de Polignac'' |
Among her co-conspirators were the Duke of Richelieu and Melchior de Polignac.
Born at the Château de Kerscamp, Hennebont, Morbihan, France, as Count Pierre Marie Xavier Raphael Antoine Melchior de Polignac, he was the fourth son and youngest child of Count Maxence Melchior Edouard Marie Louis de Polignac (1857–1936) and his Mexico-born wife whom he wed in Paris in 1881, Susana Mariana Estefanía Francisca de Paula del Corazón de la Torre y Mier (1858–1913).