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Born May 22, 1717 • France
Died November 3, 1794 (aged 77) • Rome • Papal States
Title / Office foreign minister (1757-1758), France
Role In Treaty of Versailles
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
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Napoleon III
Napoleon III
emperor of France
Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
French statesman and diplomat
Charles VII
Charles VII
king of France
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
François-Auguste-René, vicomte de Chateaubriand
French author
Lesseps
Ferdinand, viscount de Lesseps
French diplomat
Adolphe Thiers
Adolphe Thiers
French statesman and historian
François de Lorraine, 2 duc de Guise
French noble
François Guizot
François Guizot
French politician and historian
Choiseul, Étienne-François de Choiseul, duc de
Étienne-François de Choiseul, duke de Choiseul
French foreign minister
tobacco plant
Jean Nicot
French diplomat and scholar
Paul-Louis-Félix Philastre
French administrator and diplomat
Charles Gravier, count de Vergennes
French foreign minister
Peter Paul Rubens: portrait of Anne of Austria
Anne of Austria
queen of France
Ségolène Royal, 2006.
Ségolène Royal
French politician
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly
French diplomat
Couve de Murville, Maurice
Maurice Couve de Murville
prime minister of France