Jules de Polignac

Jules de Polignac
Portrait by François Gérard
Prime Minister of France
In office
8 August 1829 – 29 July 1830
MonarchsCharles X
Louis XIX
Henry V
Preceded byJean-Baptiste de Martignac
Succeeded byJacques Laffitte
French Ambassador to the United Kingdom
In office
28 December 1822 – 4 January 1828
Appointed byJean-Baptiste de Villèle
Preceded byFrançois-René de Chateaubriand
Succeeded byPierre de Montmorency-Laval
Personal details
Born(1780-05-14)14 May 1780
Versailles, Île-de-France, Kingdom of France
Died2 March 1847(1847-03-02) (aged 66)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France
Resting placePicpus Cemetery
Political partyUltra-royalist
Spouses
Barbara Campbell
(m. 1816; died 1819)
Charlotte Parkyns de Choiseul
(m. 1824; annulled 1832)
ChildrenArmand
Seyna-Camille
Alphonse
Ludovic
Yolande
Camille
Edmond
Parent(s)Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac
Gabrielle de Polastron
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Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac (French: [ʒyl pɔliɲak]; 14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847),[1] then Prince of Polignac, and briefly 3rd Duke of Polignac in 1847, was a French statesman and ultra-royalist politician after the Revolution. He served as prime minister under Charles X, just before the July Revolution in 1830 that overthrew the senior line of the House of Bourbon.


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