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Born March 19, 1698 • France
Died March 10, 1762 (aged 63) • Toulouse • France
Gaspard II de Coligny
Gaspard II de Coligny, seigneur de Châtillon
French admiral and Huguenot leader
Philippe de Mornay, seigneur du Plessis-Marly
French diplomat
Louis I de Bourbon, prince de Condé
French military leader
Henri, duke de Rohan
French duke
Henri I de Bourbon, 2 prince de Condé
French prince
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Henry II, portrait by François Clouet, 1559; in the Pitti Gallery, Florence
Henry II
king of France
Jean Cavalier
French religious leader
Renée of France, portrait after a painting by F. Clouet; in the Bibliothèque du Protestantisme, Paris
Renée of France
French duchess
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Michel de L'Hospital, detail of a portrait by an unknown French artist, 1566; in the Musée Condé, Chantilly, France.
Michel de L’Hospital
French statesman and lawyer
François de Bonne, duke de Lesdiguières
French constable
Charles de Bourbon, count de Soissons
French count and soldier
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine