The Le Tonnelier de Breteuil family was an influential and powerful French noble family, originated in Beauvais, northern France, whose members held many important political and military positions throughout history of the Kingdom of France.
The Le Tonnelier de Breteuil family was an influential and powerful French noble family, originated in Beauvais, northern France, whose members held many important political and military positions throughout history of the Kingdom of France.
The family was ennobled in 1582 and throughout centuries rose in prominence, being awarded the titles of Marquis, Count and Baron in France. [1]
Breteuil may refer to:
The Château de Breteuil is a château situated in the Vallée de Chevreuse in Yvelines department of France, 35 km (22 mi) to the southwest of Paris. The château was designated a monument historique in 1973.
Louis Charles Auguste Le Tonnelier, Baron de Breteuil, Baron de Preuilly was a French aristocrat, diplomat and statesman. He was the last chief minister of the Bourbon Monarchy, appointed by King Louis XVI only one hundred hours before the storming of the Bastille.
Prince Louis Charles de La Trémoille, 9th Duke of Thouars, 8th Duke of La Trémoïlle, 11th prince de Tarente, 15th prince de Talmond and 15th Count of Laval was a French aristocrat and the son of Charles Bretagne Marie de La Trémoille and his third wife, Valentine Eugénie Joséphine Walsh de Serrant.
Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade, 2nd Duke of La Vauguyon and sometimes mistakenly Paul François de Quélen de Stuer de Caussade de La Vauguyon was a French nobleman. He was governor of Cognac, after having been involved in the last campaigns of the Seven Years' War. He wrote a Portrait de feu monseigneur le Dauphin and was menin to the future Louis XVI, one of the Dauphin's sons. A peer of France, brigadier, maréchal de camp, knight of the ordre du Saint-Esprit, he was chosen to be minister plenipotentiary to the Estates General of the Dutch Republic. He later became French ambassador to Spain, knight of the Golden Fleece, temporary minister of foreign affairs in 1789, then minister of the conseil d'État of Louis XVIII in Verona. He was the main intermediary among Louis's agents in France, but became the victim of intrigues. From the Restoration onwards he was lieutenant général and sat in the peerage of France, where he was noted for his moderation. He and his wife had four children, but the Quelen line ended with his children.
François Victor Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, Marquis de Fontenay-Trésigny, Marquis de Breteuil was a French nobleman and a minister for war twice under Louis XV. He was also Chancellor, Keeper of the Seals of France and commander, Provost and Grand-master of ceremonies to the Order of the Holy Spirit (1721–1743).
Louis Nicolas Le Tonnelier, Baron of Breteuil, baron of Preuilly and of Breteuil was an officer in the royal household of Louis XIV. He is also notable as the father of the mathematician Émilie du Châtelet.
Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, marquis later duc du Châtelet, was an aristocratic French Army general and diplomat of the Ancien Régime.
Château d'Azay-le-Ferron is a 15th-century castle and 17th-century manor located in the commune of Azay-le-Ferron in the Indre département of France. It features a garden à la française and a French landscape garden dating to the 17th century, redone in the 19th and 20th century. The interior is richly furnished. The château is owned by the city of Tours and is open to the public.
Louise de Rohan was a French noblewoman and Princess of Guéméné by marriage.
Le Tonnelier or Tonnellier literally means "cooper" in French.
Nicolas Ladvocat-Billiard was a French cleric and doctor of theology. He became grand vicar and canon of Paris before being made bishop of Boulogne in 1677, in succession to François Perrochel. He died in office and was succeeded by Claude Le Tonnelier de Breteuil.
Claude Le Tonnelier de Breteuil was a French cleric.
Louis-Armand-Constantin de Rohan, Chevalier de Rohan and Prince de Montbazon, was a French naval officer of the eighteenth century.
Henri Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1848-1916) was a French aristocrat and politician.
Achille Le Tonnelier de Breteuil (1781–1864) was a French politician.
Anne Ferrand was a French writer.
Armand-Maximilien-François-Joseph-Olivier de Saint-Georges, viscount and marquis of Vérac, was French soldier and politician of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. He was born on August 1, 1768, in Paris and died on August 13, 1858, in his château in Temblay-sur-Mauldre.
Anne Louis Raoul Victor de Montmorency, 6th Duke of Montmorency, was a French aristocrat.
