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Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc, ''duc de Vaujours'', ''duc de La Vallière'' (9 October 1708 – 16 November 1780) was a French nobleman, bibliophile and military man. The present ''duc d'Uzès'' and ''duc de Luynes'' descend from him. ==Family and childhood== Louis César was the son of Charles François de La Baume Le Blanc, ''marquis'' and then ''duc de La Vallière'', and his wife, Marie Thérèse de Noailles, a daughter of Anne Jules de Noailles, ''duc de Noailles''. His father was a nephew of Louise de La Vallière, the first official mistress of King Louis XIV of France. On his father's side of the family, Louis César's relatives at court included Louise de La Vallière's daughter by Louis XIV, Marie Anne de Bourbon, ''princesse de Conti''. On his mother's side, his aunt was Marie Victoire de Noailles, the wife of Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, ''comte de Toulouse'', and mother of Louis Jean Marie de Bourbon, ''duc de Penthièvre'', the wealthiest man in France during Louis César's lifetime. His uncle, Adrien Maurice de Noailles married Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, the niece of Madame de Maintenon. Another cousin was Louis de Pardaillan de Gondrin, ''duc d'Antin'', a great-grandson of Madame de Montespan. When Louise de La Vallière left Versailles for a religious life after her displacement in the king's affections by Madame de Montespan, she gave the duchies of Vaujours and La Vallière to her daughter, the ''princesse de Conti''. The princess sold them in 1698 to Louis César's father. From his birth, Louis César was known at court as the ''marquis de La Vallière''. His father retained the Vaujours title for himself until his own death in 1739. In 1727 at the early age of nineteen, Louis César was promoted to the rank of colonel of the regiment under the title of ''duc de La Vallière''. In 1730, his father also gave him the duchy of Vaujours. With this new title came the rank of ''pair de France''. Even though his father officially gave up the duchy in 1732, he was still styled at court as the ''duc de Vaujours''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis César de La Baume Le Blanc」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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