Jules, prince de Polignac
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Jules de Polignac GCOSL, OLH, KOHS, KOSML |
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| 7th Prime Minister of France | |
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In office 8 August 1829 – 29 July 1830 |
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| Monarch | Charles X |
| Preceded by | Jean-Baptiste de Martignac |
| Succeeded by |
Vacant (government led by Louis Philippe I) Jacques Laffitte (1830) |
| France Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
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In office 28 December 1822 – 4 January 1828 |
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| Appointed by | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
| Preceded by | François-René de Chateaubriand |
| Succeeded by | Pierre de Montmorency-Laval |
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| Born |
14 May 1780 Versailles, Île-de-France, France |
| Died | 2 March 1847 (aged 66) Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France |
| Political party | Ultra-royalist |
| Spouse(s) |
Barbara Campbell (m. 1816; her d. 1819) Charlotte Parkyns de Choiseul (m. 1824; annulled 1832) |
| Children | Armand Seyna-Camille Alphonse Ludovic Camille Edmond |
| Religion | Roman Catholicism |
Prince Jules Auguste Armand Marie, Count of Polignac (French pronunciation: [ʒyl.də.pɔ.li.ɲak] ; 14 May 1780 – 2 March 1847), then briefly 3rd Duke of Polignac in 1847, was a French statesman, ultra-royalist politician after the Revolution and prime minister under Charles X, just before the 1830 July Revolution which overthrew the Bourbon dynasty.
Born in Versailles, Jules was the younger son of Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac, and Gabrielle de Polastron, a confidante and favourite of Queen Marie-Antoinette. Due to his mother's privileged position, the young Jules was raised in the environment of the court of Versailles, where his family occupied a luxurious suite of thirteen rooms. His sister, Aglaé, was married to the duc de Guîche at a young age, helping to cement the Polignac family's position as one of the leaders of high society at Versailles.
In 1789, the outbreak of the French Revolution, Jules's mother and her circle were forced to flee abroad due to threats against their lives. Gabrielle had been one of the most consistent supporters of absolutism and bequeathed these political sympathies to her son following her death in 1793.
Jules married twice. He married firstly, in 1816 at London to Barbara Campbell (Ardneaves House, Islay 22 Aug 1788-Saint-Mandé 23 May 1819), a young Scotswoman, who later returned with him to France, with whom he had two children:
After her death in 1819, he married in London on 3 June 1824 Charlotte, Comtesse de Choiseul, widow of Comte Cesar de Choiseul (d 1821), née Honourable (Maria) Charlotte Parkyns (St.Marylebone 6 Jan 1792-1/2 Sep 1864). She was the youngest child (of six children) and daughter of Thomas Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe (created 1795) and his wife Elizabeth Anne James, and sister of George Augustus Anne Parkyns, Lord Rancliffe and Henrietta, Lady Rumbold (1789-1833) wife of Sir William Rumbold, 3rd Bt. in 1824. He had met her while she was renewing her passport at the London embassy, and he was Ambassador (1823-1829). They had 5 children, of whom two were born while their father was (comfortably) in prison.:
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