Adrien-Maurice de Noailles

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Adrien Maurice de Noailles, portrait by Eloi Firmin Féron , 1834

Adrien Maurice de Noailles, (3rd) Duke of Noailles (born September 29, 1678 in Paris , † June 24, 1766 ibid) was Marshal of France and came from the old French noble family Noailles .

Life

Adrien Maurice was the eldest son of Marshal Anne Jules de Noailles, Duke of Noailles . In 1698 he married Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, the niece of Madame de Maintenon , who received Maintenon Castle as a present from her aunt for her wedding .

During the War of the Spanish Succession he commanded a French army corps in Spain , conquered Girona in 1710 and was made Spanish grandee by Philip V in 1711 .

During the reign of the Duke of Orleans at the head of the dysfunctional financial system, he resorted to the violent measures of the old financiers, had as an opponent of the Scotsman John Law in 1718 his place of Marc René d'Argenson surrender and retreated, by Guillaume Dubois from Court repressed, back to private life.

It was not until 1733, during the War of the Polish Succession , that he received a command on the Rhine again . Noailles conquered the lines of Ettlingen , occupied Worms and, after the death of Marshal Berwick in front of Philippsburg, received the supreme command along with the marshal's baton .

In 1735 he drove the imperial from Italy at the head of the Sardinian troops . During the War of the Austrian Succession , he suffered a defeat by the pragmatic army in the Battle of Dettingen on June 27th, whereupon he exchanged his command for a position in the State Council and took over the management of all foreign affairs.

In 1746 he took over a mission to the Spanish court, which he reconciled with France. Living in retirement since 1755, he died on June 24, 1766.

An extract from his memoirs gave Millot (Maastricht 1777) out; Rousset published the Correspondance de Louis XV et du maréchal de Noailles (Par. 1865, 2 volumes).

His eldest son was Marshal Louis de Noailles , his younger son Marshal Philippe de Noailles, Duke of Mouchy . Philippe was guillotined together with his wife on June 27, 1794 , one month before the fall of Maximilien de Robespierre and the end of the reign of terror ( la Terreur ).

literature

  • Françoise Bayard, Joël Felix, Philippe Hamon: Dictionnaire des surintendants et contrôleurs généraux des finances . Comité pour l'Histoire Économique et Financière de la France, Paris 2000, ISBN 2-11-090091-1 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Die kleine Enzyklopädie , Encyclios-Verlag, Zurich, 1950, Volume 2, page 259
predecessor Office successor
Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou Foreign Minister of France
April 26, 1744-19. November 1744 		René Louis d'Argenson
Nicolas Desmarets President of the Finance Council
October 1, 1715–28. January 1718 		Marc René d'Argenson
personal data
SURNAME Noailles, Adrien-Maurice de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Noailles, Adrien-Maurice 3rd duc de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Marshal of France
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1678
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH June 24, 1766
Place of death Paris