Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, Duke of Saint-Aignan
French diplomat and soldier
Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, Duke of Saint-Aignan (15 November 1684, in Paris – 22 January 1776, in Paris) was a French diplomat, soldier, chevalier des ordres du Roi and peer of France.
Family
He was the son of François Honorat de Beauvilliers, 1st Duke of Saint-Aignan and of Antoinette Servien and the half brother of Paul de Beauvilliers, 2nd Duke of Saint-Aignan.[1]
Life
He served as ambassador to Spain (where in 1716 he accompanied don Philip to the baptismal font in the name of France), then as a member of the Regency council in 1719, governor of Le Havre and ambassador extraordinary to Rome in 1731. He was elected a member of the Académie Française in 1726 and of the Académie des inscriptions in 1732.
See also
- Duke of Saint-Aignan
References
- ^ Mansel, P.; Riotte, T. (28 October 2011). Monarchy and Exile: The Politics of Legitimacy from Marie de Médicis to Wilhelm II. Springer. p. 176. ISBN 978-0-230-32179-3.
External links
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- Marin le Roy de Gomberville (1634)
- Pierre Daniel Huet (1674)
- Jean Boivin le Cadet (1721)
- Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, Duc de Saint-Aignan (1726)
- Charles-Pierre Colardeau (1776)
- Jean-François de La Harpe (1776)
- Pierre-Louis Lacretelle l'Aîné (1803)
- François-Xavier-Joseph Droz (1824)
- Charles de Montalembert (1851)
- Henri d'Orléans, Duc d'Aumale (1871)
- Eugène Guillaume (1898)
- Étienne Lamy (1905)
- André Chevrillon (1920)
- Marcel Achard (1959)
- Félicien Marceau (1975)
- Alain Finkielkraut (2014)