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Charles Gravier, count de Vergennes
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Born December 28, 1719 • Dijon • France
Died February 13, 1787 (aged 67) • Versailles • France
Title / Office foreign minister (1774-1787), France
Role In American Revolution • Franco-American Alliance

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Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat
Choiseul, Étienne-François de Choiseul, duc de
Étienne-François de Choiseul, duke de Choiseul
French foreign minister
Couve de Murville, Maurice
Maurice Couve de Murville
prime minister of France
Armand, marquis de Caulaincourt
French general
Hanotaux, detail of an engraving by Dujardin after a portrait by Benjamin Constant
Gabriel Hanotaux
French statesman and historian
Edmond Drouyn de Lhuys
French statesman
Jean-Baptiste Nompère de Champagny, duke de Cadore
French statesman
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
president of France
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
prime minister of France
Philip IV
Philip IV
king of France
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Francis I
Francis I
king of France
Jules Cardinal Mazarin
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin
French cardinal and statesman
Louis XI
Louis XI
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