Jean François de Saint-Lambert was a French poet, philosopher and military officer.
Antenor Patiño Rodríguez was a Bolivian tycoon, heir to his father Simón I. Patiño, called "the King of Tin".
The Château du Rivau is a castle-palace in Lémeré (Indre-et-Loire), in the Touraine region, France. In Rabelais' Gargantua, it was given to captain Tolmere as a reward for his victories in the Picrocholean Wars.
Francis of Bourbon or François de Bourbon,, was the Count of Vendôme and a French prince du sang.
Germain Boffrand was a French architect. A pupil of Jules Hardouin-Mansart, Germain Boffrand was one of the main creators of the precursor to Rococo called the style Régence, and in his interiors, of the Rococo itself. In his exteriors he held to a monumental Late Baroque classicism with some innovations in spatial planning that were exceptional in France His major commissions, culminating in his interiors at the Hôtel de Soubise, were memorialised in his treatise Livre d'architecture, published in 1745, which served to disseminate the French Louis XV style throughout Europe.
The princely title of Prince of Craon was a title used by the Beauvau family using their status as Prince of the Holy Roman Empire which was gained in 1722 which was later fully recognised by Louis XV of France in 1755 and was inherited by legitimate male offspring. It became extinct in 1982 upon the death of Prince Marc de Beauvau-Craon without a male heir.
The château de Craon, also known as the château d'Haroué or palais d'Haroué is a French château located in a small valley in the centre of the village of Haroué, in the Saintois, in the département of Meurthe-et-Moselle and the région of Lorraine. It was built between 1720 and 1732 by Germain Boffrand during the period when Lorraine was independent of France, for Marc de Beauvau, prince de Craon, viceroy of Tuscany and constable of Lorraine.
Place Beauvau is a public square in the 8th arrondissement of Paris, at the intersection of the Rue du Faubourg-Saint-Honoré, Avenue de Marigny, Rue des Saussaies and Rue de Miromesnil. It is located in the La Madeleine neighbourhood, next to the Élysée Palace.
François Vincent Marc de Beauvau, 1st Prince of Craon, was a Lorrainese nobleman who served as viceroy of Tuscany.
The House of Beauvau was the name of a historic French noble family originating in Anjou, whose members held significant political and military positions in France, Spain and the Holy Roman Empire.
Charles Juste de Beauvau, 2nd Prince of Craon, 2nd Prince of Craon (1754), Marshal of France (1783) was a French scholar, nobleman and general. The son of Marc de Beauvau, he was also brother of the famous Madame de Boufflers and through her uncle to the poet Stanislas de Boufflers.
Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau, Marquise of Boufflers, commonly known as Madame de Boufflers, was a French noblewoman. She was the royal mistress of Stanislas Leszczyński and mother of the poet Stanislas de Boufflers.
Antoine-Martin Chaumont de La Galaizière, marquis de La Galaizière, chancellor of Lorraine, was a French nobleman active at the court of Lorraine. He was one of the lovers of Marie Françoise Catherine de Beauvau-Craon.
Emmanuel Théodose de La Tour d'Auvergne was a French nobleman and ruler of the Sovereign Duchy of Bouillon. He was the son of Godefroy Maurice de La Tour d'Auvergne and his wife Marie Anne Mancini. He married four times and had eleven children.
Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne, was a French noblewoman and member of the House of La Tour d'Auvergne. Married into the House of Beauvau, a powerful family originating in Anjou, she had a daughter at the age twenty, and died of smallpox at the age of thirty three. The present Duke of Mouchy branch of the Noailles family are descended from her.
Charles Just de Beauvau, 4th Prince of Beauvau was a 19th-century French senator and army officer. Though also Prince of Craon he was better known as the Prince of Beauvau.
Louis de Beauvau, lord of Beauvau and Sermaise in Anjou. He was ambassador to Henry VI of England, retainer of the House of Anjou, and close friend of René of Anjou, he was made a knight of the Ordre du Croissant in 1448. On his final diplomatic mission in 1472 to Rome for René, he died.
Pierre I of Beauvau, baron of Beauvau, La Roche-sur-Yon and Champigny-sur-Veude, lord of Craon, of Sablé and Ferté-Bernard by marriage. He was an adviser for Charles VII, and chamberlain, counsellor, governor and lieutenant to dukes, Louis II, Louis III and René of Anjou.
Anne Louise Marie de Beauvau known as "Mademoiselle de Beauvau" was the only child of Charles Juste de Beauvau, Prince of Craon and Marie Charlotte de La Tour d'Auvergne. She was also a niece of society hostess, Madame de Boufflers In Paris, the Princess of Poix held a salon where she received all that was most brilliant within the society of the time and in particular the supporters of new ideas such as Lally-Tollendal, the Abbé de Montesquiou, the Marquis de La Fayette, the Dukes of Luynes and Liancourt as well as for Mesdames d'Hénin, de Tessé, de Lauzun, de Simiane and Ossun.
