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Born c.806 • France?
Died December 21, 882 • Épernay • France
Subjects Of Study canon law • predestination
Suger, detail of a stained glass window, 12th century; in the abbey church of Saint-Denis, Fr.
Suger
French abbot
Duprat, detail from a lithograph, 1527
Antoine Duprat
French chancellor and cardinal
Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
French aristocrat
Jean-Jacques-Régis de Cambacérès, duke de Parme
French statesman
Georges de La Trémoille
French noble
Maurepas, engraving by Dupin de Franlieu, 18th century
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas
French secretary of state
Duroc, portrait by Jacques-Louis David; in the Musée Léon Bonnat, Bayonne, Fr.
Géraud-Christophe-Michel Duroc, duke de Frioul
French general
Jeannin, engraving by Robert Nanteuil
Pierre Jeannin
French statesman
Léon Bouthillier, comte de Chavigny et de Buzançais
French statesman
Bureau de la Rivière
French official
Gilbert Motier de La Fayette
marshal of France
Robert Le Maçon
chancellor of France
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Henry IV, undated copperplate engraving.
Henry IV
king of France
Henry de Guise
Henri I de Lorraine, 3 duc de Guise
French noble
Charlest, count de Montalember
French politician and historian
Henri Lacordaire
French priest
Charles de Lorraine, 2nd cardinal de Lorraine
French cardinal