Broglie (noble family)

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Coat of arms of the Broglie family ( d'or, à la croix de Saint André ancrée d'azur )

Broglie [ ˈbrɔj ] is the name of a family (originally Broglio or Broglia ) that came from Piedmont and was naturalized in France since 1656. They consisted of several military leaders (including three marshals of France ), historians, statesmen (including two prime ministers), members of the Académie française and produced a Nobel Prize in Physics , Louis-Victor de Broglie .

For the second marshal, François-Marie de Broglie , his barony Ferrières was raised to a duchy and a pairie Broglie. The area around what is now Broglie is located in the Eure department in the Normandy region .

coat of arms

Blazon : "In gold a blue anchor saltire " ( d'or au sautoir ANCRE riviera )

family members

  1. Victor-Maurice de Broglie , Comte de Broglie (1646–1727), Marshal of France
  2. François-Marie de Broglie (1671–1745), 1st Duke de Broglie, Marshal of France, son of the previous one
  3. Victor-François de Broglie (1718–1804), 2nd Duke de Broglie, military commander and Commander-in-Chief in the Seven Years War , Minister of War, Marshal of France, son of the previous one
  4. Charles-François de Broglie , Comte de Broglie , (1719–1781), soldier and diplomat, brother of the previous one
  5. François de Broglie (1720–1757), French general, Count of Revel
  6. Claude-Victor de Broglie , Prince de Broglie , (1757–1794), son of 3rd, guillotined
  7. Maurice-Jean-Magdalène de Broglie (1766–1821), bishop, brother of the previous one
  8. Achille-Léon-Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), 3rd Duke de Broglie and peer of France , statesman, multiple minister and prime minister, from 1855 member of the Académie française, son of 5.
  9. Jacques-Victor-Albert de Broglie (1821–1901), 4th Duke de Broglie, historian, writer, statesman, multiple minister and prime minister, from 1862 member of the Académie française, eldest son of the previous one
  10. Auguste-Théodore-Paul de Broglie (1834–1895) (BBKL)
  11. Louis-Alphonse-Victor de Broglie (1846–1906), 5th Duke de Broglie, diplomat, eldest son of the 4th Duke
  12. Maurice de Broglie (1875–1960), 6th Duke de Broglie, physicist, member of the Académie française from 1934, eldest son of 11.
  13. Louis-Victor-Pierre-Raymond de Broglie (1892–1987), 7th Duke de Broglie, physicist, Nobel laureate, member of the Académie française from 1944, was best known for his work on the wave nature of the electron, youngest son of 11.
  14. Jean de Broglie (1921–1976), politician, great-grandson of Albert (of 9), murdered
  15. Gabriel de Broglie (* 1931), historian, writer, statesman, member of the Council of State, member of the Académie française since 2001 , President of the Commission générale de terminologie et de neologie , commander of the Legion of Honor
  16. Victor-François Marie Léon de Broglie (1949–2012), 8th Duke de Broglie, son of Jean de Broglie
  17. Philippe-Maurice (* 1960), 9th Duke de Broglie, brother of Victor-François

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ House Broglie on Heraldique Européenne

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