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    François-Gaston de Lévis, 1st Duke of Lévis (20 August 1719 – 20 November 1787), styled as the Chevalier de Lévis until 1785, was a nobleman and a Marshal...
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    Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764 – 15 February 1830), second duke of Lévis, peer of France, was a French politician, aphorist, and soldier. At the French...
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    with the British. The French military commander in the region, François Gaston de Lévis, was resolved to make a last stand in the city despite the overwhelming...
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    France François Gaston de Lévis (1719–1787), Marshal of France Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis (1764–1830), French politician and aphorist Antoine de Lévis-Mirepoix...
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    Lawrence River colonies against the British. Named for François Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis, the fort was constructed on Isle Royale, 3 miles (4.8 km)...
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    Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis-Lomagne, duc de Mirepoix (1699–1757), maréchal de France (1757) and Ambassador of Louis XV, was a French aristocrat. His...
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    action, took a position as an aide-de-camp to Philippe Charles de La Fare. Montcalm and François Gaston de Lévis (who later served under him in New France)...
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    [citation needed] Lévis was, however, unable to retake Quebec. The British retreated behind the city's walls, and withstood Lévis' feeble siege until...
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    France in 1783 Emmanuel de Croÿ-Solre, Duke of Croÿ (1718–1784), Marshal of France in 1783 François Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Lévis (1719–1787), Marshal of...
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    April 1760, François Gaston de Lévis led French forces to launch an attack to retake Quebec. Although he won the Battle of Sainte-Foy, Lévis' subsequent...
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    Artois (category History of the Pas-de-Calais)
    Robert-François Damiens (1715–1757), failed regicide, born in La Thieuloye Artesian aquifer Battle of Artois (disambiguation) Communauté d'agglomération de l'Artois...
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    ancestral home of the noble Montcalm and Lévis families, and birthplace of François Gaston de Lévis, Duc de Levis. Building of the chateau started in the...
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    Seven Years' War (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    confusion and scattered, leaving large spaces in their ranks. When François Gaston de Lévis sent 1,000 soldiers to reinforce Montcalm's struggling troops,...
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    before it can reach North America. April 20 – France's Marshal François Gaston de Lévis departs from Montreal up the St. Lawrence River with 7,000 troops...
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    relieve the city and compelled the French commander, Francis de Gaston, Chevalier de Lévis, to break off the siege and to retreat. The British launched...
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    and de Rohan raised to prince. François would be succeeded by three further princes before the male line of Rohan-Soubise became extinct. François was...
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    Abraham, the French had regrouped in Montreal under the command of François Gaston de Lévis, leaving the under-supplied British to endure a harsh Canadian...
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    2021-06-06. Deschênes, Gaston (2010-04-18). "Québec's Motto". The Canadian Encyclopedia. Retrieved 2021-06-06. Deschênes, Gaston. "The Motto of Quebec:...
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    1749 : Louis-Marie-François-Gaston de Lévis, marquis of Mirepoix, brigadier since July 13, 1756 July 28, 1759 : Louis-Marie de Chapelle, count of Jumilhac...
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    Charles-Pierre-Gaston François de Lévis, duc de Lévis-Mirepoix (1699–1757), French field marshal and ambassador and a member of the noble family of Lévis, lords...
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  • aged twenty-seven. Born in Paris to Hercule Mériadec de Rohan and his wife Anne Geneviève de Lévis, as a member of the House of Rohan, he was entitled...
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    Hercule Mériadec de Rohan, Prince of Maubuisson, Duke of Rohan-Rohan (8 May 1669 – 26 January 1749) married Anne Geneviève de Lévis, had issue; married...
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    comte de Montboissier. François Gaston de Lévis, duc de Lévis, marshal of France. Anne-François d'Harcourt, duc de Beuvron. Jacques Aimeric Joseph de Durfort...
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  • (1884–1951); married to Guy de Lévis-Mirepoix (1879–1940) Emmanuel de Lévis-Mirepoix, Prince of Robecque (1909–1951) Guy-Emmanuel de Lévis-Mirepoix, Prince of...
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    1760s (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    before it can reach North America. April 20 – France's Marshal François Gaston de Lévis departs from Montreal up the St. Lawrence River with 7,000 troops...
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    1735–36 : Bishop Roger de Bussy-Rabutin (Minister Plenipotentiary) 1737–39 : Gaston-Pierre-Charles de Lévis, vicomte de Lomagne later duc de Mirepoix 1740–41 :...
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    Henri Raymond Casgrain, François Gaston Lévis (1890). Journal des campagnes du chevalier de Lévis: en Canada de 1756 à 1760. C.O. Beauchemin & fils. pp...
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    Geneviève de Rohan (7 January 1720–4 March 1803) married Gaston Jean Baptiste de Lorraine, Count of Marsan, no issue; François Auguste de Rohan, Count...
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    married Gaston Pierre Charles de Lévis, Duke of Mirepoix, no issue. Gabrielle Françoise de Beauvau (1708–1758), married Gabriel Alexandre d'Alsace de Henin-Liétard...
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    firstly to Anne Geneviève de Lévis, daughter of Louis Charles de Lévis and Charlotte de La Motte Houdancourt (better known as Madame de Ventadour, governess...
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