French Marquesses

Emmanuel-Augustin-Dieudonné-Joseph, comte de Las Cases (21 June 1766 – 15 May 1842) was a French atlas-maker and author, famed for an admiring book about Napoleon, Le Mémorial de Sainte-Hélène ("The Memorial of Saint Helena").

François-Marie, Marquess of Barthélemy (20 October 1747, Aubagne – 3 April 1830 Paris) was a French politician and diplomat, active at the time of the French Revolution.

Catherine de Vivonne, marquise de Rambouillet (1588 – 2 December 1665), known as Madame de Rambouillet, was a society hostess and a major figure in the literary history of 17th-century France.

Henri Coiffier de Ruzé, Marquis de Cinq-Mars (1620 – 12 September 1642) was a favourite of King Louis XIII of France who led the last and most nearly successful of the many conspiracies against the king's powerful first minister, the Cardinal Richelieu.

Thomas de Mahy, marquis de Favras (March 26, 1744 – February 19, 1790) was a French aristocrat and supporter of the House of Bourbon during the French Revolution.

Jean Galbert de Campistron (3 August 1656 – 11 May 1723) was a French dramatist.

Philippe Louis Henri Marie de Chérisey, 9th marquess de Chérisey (13 February 1923 – 17 July 1985) was a French writer, radio humorist, surrealist and supporting actor (using the stage name Amédée).

Jeanne Agnès Berthelot de Pléneuf, marquise de Prie (1698 – 7 October 1727), was a French noblewoman who for a brief period exercised extraordinary control of the French court during the reign of Louis XV.

Gabrielle de Rochechouart de Mortemart, Marchioness of Thianges (1633 – 12 September 1693) was a French noblewoman.

Jean d'Albert de Luynes Dunois, 12th Duke of Luynes (16 February 1945, Mar del Plata-30 March 2008, Paris) was the son of Philippe d'Albert, 11th Duke of Luynes (1905–93) and the Argentine heiress Juana Diaz y Unzué (1914–93).

Michel Louis Christophe Motier de La Fayette, marquis de La Fayette (13 August 1731 – 9 July 1759) was a colonel in the French Grenadiers.

Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force (died 19 April 1699) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques de Caumont, Marquis de Boësse (died 1634) and Louise de Saint Georges.

Adélaïde Victoire Hall, called Adèle (11 May 1772 in Paris – 14 October 1844 in Paris), was a Swedish-French artist and noble (marquise).

Louis-Marie-Florent de Lomont d'Haraucourt, marquis later duc du Châtelet (20 November 1727, Semur-en-Auxois - 13 December 1793, Paris), was an aristocratic French Army general and diplomat of the Ancien Régime.

The House of La Fayette was a French family of Nobles of the Sword, from the province of Auvergne, established during the Middle-Age by the lords of the fief of La Fayette held by the senior branch of the Motier family.

Roland-Michel Barrin de La Galissonière, Marquis de La Galissonière, sometimes spelled Galissonnière, (French pronunciation: ​[ʁolɑ̃ miʃɛl baʁɛ̃ də la galisɔnjɛʁ]; 1693–1756) was the French governor of New France from 1747 to 1749 and the victor in the Battle of Minorca in 1756.

Bertrand Nompar de Caumont, marquis de La Force (1 August 1724 – 22 January 1773) was a French nobleman, the son of Jean François de Caumont (1694 – 1755) and Jeanne de Maury (died 1770).

Marquis Alexandre de Prouville de Tracy (c. 1596 or 1603–1670) was a French aristocrat, statesman, and military leader.

Henri-Cardin-Jean-Baptiste d'Aguesseau, Marquis d'Aguesseau (23 August 1747, Paris – 22 January 1826), grandson of the French chancellor Henri François d'Aguesseau, was advocate-general in the parlement of Paris and deputy in the Estates-General.

Marquis de Vibraye is the title created by letters patent in 1625 and still held by the Hurault family.

Marie Adrienne Françoise de Noailles, Marquise de La Fayette (2 November 1759 – 24 December 1807), the daughter of Jean de Noailles, and Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, married Gilbert du Motier, marquis de Lafayette.

Charles Auguste, Marquis de La Fare, Conte of Laugères, Baron of Balazuc (1644–1712), was a poet and French memorialist.

Charles de l'Aubespine, marquis de Châteauneuf (22 February 1580 – 26 September 1653) was a French diplomat and government official.

Jean-Charles de Castelbajac, also known as JC/DC, born 28 November 1949 in Casablanca, Morocco, is a fashion designer.

Philippe Jean Paul Marie Raymond d'Albert de Luynes Dunois (born 1977) is the 13th Duke of Luynes.

Philippe d'Albert, 11th Duke of Luynes (August 12, 1905 – July 13, 1993) was the son of Honoré d' Albert, 10th duc de Luynes and Simone de Crussol d' Uzès.

Anne-César de La Luzerne (1741–1791) was an 18th-century French soldier and diplomat.

Marquis Jules Félix Philippe Albert de Dion de Wandonne (9 March 1856 – 19 August 1946) was a pioneer of the automobile industry in France.

Charles Louis Huguet, marquis de Sémonville (9 March 1759 – 11 August 1839) was a French diplomat and politician.

Claude-Louis-François Régnier, comte de Guerchy, later marquis de Blosset (1715–1767) was a French diplomat.

Henri Georges Le Compasseur de Créqui-Montfort Marquis de Courtivron (27 September 1877 – 4 April 1966) was a French explorer, anthropologist, diplomat, businessman and sports shooter who competed in the 1912 Summer Olympics and in the 1924 Summer Olympics.

Henri Charles Louis Boniface, marquis de Castellane (23 September 1814, Paris - 16 October 1847, château de Rochecotte) was a French politician and nobleman.

Henriette-Lucy, Marquise de La Tour-du-Pin-Gouvernet (25 February 1770, Paris – 2 April 1853, Pisa), (also known as Lucie), was a French aristocrat famous for her memoirs entitled Journal d'une femme de 50 ans.

Henry de La Falaise, Marquis de La Coudraye, born James Henry Le Bailly de La Falaise (Saint-Cyr-l'École, France, February 11, 1898 – April 10, 1972), was a French nobleman, translator, film director, film producer, sometime actor, and war hero who was best known for his high-profile marriages to two leading Hollywood actresses.

Antoine-Amédée-Marie-Vincent Manca Amat de Vallombrosa, Marquis de Morès et de Montemaggiore (June 14, 1858 – June 9, 1896), commonly known as the Marquis de Morès, was a famous duelist, frontier ranchman in the Badlands of Dakota Territory during the final years of the American Old West era, a railroad pioneer in Vietnam, and an anti-Semitic politician in his native France.

Pierre Marie, Marquis de Grave (27 September 1755 – 16 January 1823) was the French Minister of War in 1792, from 9 March to 9 May.

Louis René Quentin de Richebourg, marquis de Champcenetz was governor of the Tuileries Palace at the time of the French Revolution.