Jules de Polignac | |
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Prime Minister of France | |
In office 8 August 1829 – 29 July 1830 | |
Monarchs | Charles X Louis XIX Henry V |
Preceded by | Jean-Baptiste de Martignac |
Succeeded by | Jacques Laffitte |
French Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
In office 28 December 1822 – 4 January 1828 | |
Appointed by | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
Preceded by | François-René de Chateaubriand |
Succeeded by | Pierre de Montmorency-Laval |
Personal details | |
Born | Versailles, Île-de-France, Kingdom of France | 14 May 1780
Died | 2 March 1847 Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France | (aged 66)
Resting place | Picpus Cemetery |
Political party | Ultra-royalist |
Spouses | Barbara Campbell
(m. 1816; died 1819) |
Children | Armand 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 pronunciation: [ʒyl də 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.