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    Claude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince of Martigues, Marquis then (1st) Duke of Villars, Viscount of Melun (French pronunciation: [klod lwi ɛktɔʁ də vilaʁ]...
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    Louis-Léon de Brancas (3 July 1733 – 9 October 1824), 3rd duc de Lauraguais, 6th duc de Villars, was a French general and author, and a member of the French...
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    Don Honoré Armand de Villars, 2nd Duke of Villars (4 October 1702, Paris – May 1770, Aix), Duke and Peer of France, Prince of Martigues, Grandee of Spain...
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    de Brancas (1733-1824), 3rd duc de Lauraguais, 6th duc de Villars, French author Nicola de Brancas, Bishop of Marseille 1445-1466 Marie Françoise de Brancas...
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  • 30 July 1712 during the War of the Spanish Succession conducted by Duc de Villars. A French 22,000-strong army besieged and, with negligible resistance...
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    Hector de Villars, Marshal-Duke of Villars, and was with him at the Battle of Malplaquet. Here he displayed the highest skill, and after Villars was wounded...
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    nobleman and soldier. Son of Anne Jules de Noailles, he inherited the title duc de Noailles on his father's death in 1708. He fought in the War of the Spanish...
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    bonheur du jour that he identified was in 1770, in an inventory of the duc de Villars' property at Marseille.  One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates...
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    Bourbon-Vendôme, duc de Mercœur 1669–1712 Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme 1712–1734 Claude-Louis-Hector, duc de Villars 1734–1770 Honoré-Armand, duc de Villars...
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    Siege of Bouchain (1712) (category Battles in Hauts-de-France)
    the Spanish Succession, and a victory for the French troops of the Duc de Villars. A French army of 20,000 men besieged and captured the Allied-controlled...
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  • Louis-Joseph de Bourbon, duc de Vendôme 1712–1734 Claude-Louis-Hector, duc de Villars 1734–1770 Honoré-Armand, duc de Villars 1770–1780 Camille-Louis de Lorraine...
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    de Broglie, Gauthier-Villars, 1928. Ondes et mouvements (in French). Paris: Gauthier-Villars. 1926. Rapport au 5ème Conseil de Physique Solvay (Report...
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  • Adrien Maurice de Noailles, Duke of Noailles and Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné and married, in 1721, to Honoré Armand de Villars, Duke of Villars. She had no...
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  • Succession, in which French and Spanish forces under the command of the Duc de Villars captured the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg...
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    Weil am Rhein (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    year 786 as Willa, a name which is thought to be of Roman origin. The duc de Villars crossed the Rhine here in October 1702 to fight the Battle of Friedlingen...
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  • Early modern period (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    was marked by the military leadership of notable generals like the duc de Villars, the Jacobite Duke of Berwick, the Duke of Marlborough and Prince Eugene...
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    Madame de Maintenon. As of August 5, 1721, Amable Gabrielle was the wife of the renowned homosexual Honoré-Armand de Villares, 2e duc de Villars (4 December...
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    d'Eschmounazar (1880) Madame de Maintenon et le maréchal de Villars. Correspondance inédite (1881) Madame de Maintenon et le maréchal de Villars. Correspondance inédite...
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    puis duc d'Estrées, pair, vice-admiral and marshal of France, a.k.a. maréchal de Cœuvres then maréchal d'Estrées. Hector de Villars, duc de Villars, pair...
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    at Malplaquet. He was made lieutenant-general in 1710, and served with Villars in the last campaign of the war and at the Battle of Denain. During the...
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    the Duc de Villars capture the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine. February – Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile...
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  • François de Bonne, duc de Lesdiguières (1543–1626): Marshal, 27 September 1609 Marshal General, 30 March 1621 Constable of France, 6 July 1622 Henri de La Tour...
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  • Pierre Drevet (1663–1738), 1 engraving : Portrait of Louis Hector, Duc de Villars, Marshal of France, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg (url) Willem Drost...
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    Henri de Bourbon, prince dauphin d'Auvergne, then prince de Dombes and duc de Montpensier (c. 1573–27 February 1608) was a French prince du sang (prince...
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  • the Duc de Villars capture the fortress of the Holy Roman Empire at Kehl, opposite Strasbourg on the Rhine. February – Soldiers at Fort Louis de la Mobile...
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    Edmond Laguerre (category People from Bar-le-Duc)
    direction; méthodes de transformation; anticaustiques. Gauthier-Villars. 1885. (in French) Oeuvres de Laguerre publ. sous les auspices de l'Académie des sciences...
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    Canisy; and Élie Decazes (1822–1851), married in 1850 to Elisabeth de Mauvise de Villars, parents of Raymond Decazes (1851–1913), married in 1887 to Marie-Louise...
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    France, previously held only by Turenne, Claude Louis Hector de Villars, and Maurice de Saxe.[citation needed] As Minister of War (1830 to 1834), Soult...
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  • Babou de La Bourdaisière, and the brother of Gabrielle d'Estrées, mistress of Henry IV of France and Julienne-Hippolite-Joséphine, Duchess of Villars. His...
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    time, Biron was obliged to relinquish it to Villars-Brancas in 1594. This was due to the fact that Villars-Brancas was in command of Rouen, and the Admiralty...
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