Auguste-Armand de la Force
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Auguste Armand Ghislain Marie Joseph Nompar de Caumont de La Force (18 August 1878, Dieppe
- 3 October 1961, Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay
), 12th Duke of La Force, was a French duke and historian. Specialising in the 17th century (he was himself a descendent of the 1000-year-old Caumont de la Force family), his work allowed him to reconstruct events in which his ancestors had taken part. He was elected a member of the Académie française
on 19 November 1925.
Dieppe, Seine-Maritime
Dieppe is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in France. In 1999, the population of the whole Dieppe urban area was 81,419.A port on the English Channel, famous for its scallops, and with a regular ferry service from the Gare Maritime to Newhaven in England, Dieppe also has a popular pebbled...
- 3 October 1961, Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay
Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay
Saint-Aubin-de-Locquenay is a commune in the Sarthe department in the region of Pays-de-la-Loire in north-western France.-References:*...
), 12th Duke of La Force, was a French duke and historian. Specialising in the 17th century (he was himself a descendent of the 1000-year-old Caumont de la Force family), his work allowed him to reconstruct events in which his ancestors had taken part. He was elected a member of the Académie française
Académie française
L'Académie française , also called the French Academy, is the pre-eminent French learned body on matters pertaining to the French language. The Académie was officially established in 1635 by Cardinal Richelieu, the chief minister to King Louis XIII. Suppressed in 1793 during the French Revolution,...
on 19 November 1925.
Works
- Amours et usages de jadis, Paris, Fayard 1959
- Anne de Caumont-La Force, comtesse de Balbi, Paris, Émile-Paul, 1909
- Chateaubriand au travail, Avignon, Aubanel, 1941
- Claire Marie de Nassau : princesse de Ligne, Bruxelles, [s.n.], 1936
- Comédies sanglantes, drames intimes, Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1930
- Dames d’autrefois, Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1933
- De Bayard au Roi Soleil, Paris, La Table ronde 1946
- De Colbert à Marat, Paris, Éditions de la Table ronde 1946
- Deux favorites, Madame de Balbi et Madame de Polastron, Paris, Revue des deux mondes, 1907
- Dix siècles d’histoire de France ; les Caumont la Force, Paris, Fasquelle 1960
- Églises et abbayes de la Sarthe, Paris, J. Delmas et Cie, 1971
- En marge de l’Académie, Paris, Wesmael-Charlier 1962
- En suivant nos pères, Paris, Amiot-Dumont 1952
- Femmes fortes, Paris, Émile-Paul frères 1936
- Histoire du cardinal de Richelieu , 4 tomes, Paris, Plon 1932-1947
- Histoire et portraits, Paris, Editions Emile-Paul frères, 1937
- Journal 1817-1848, Paris, Amiot-Dumont, 1955
- La fin de la douceur de vivre ; souvenirs 1878-1914, Paris, Plon 1961
- La grande mademoiselle, Paris, Flammarion, 1927
- La vie amoureuse de la Grande Mademoiselle, Paris, Flammarion, 1931, 1927
- La vie courante hier et aujourd’hui : une fantaisie de Madame Du Barry, Paris, Bureaux de la Revue de France, 1932
- L’architrésorier Lebrun, gouverneur de la Hollande, 1810-1813, Paris, Plon, 1907
- Lauzun un courtisan du Grand Roi, Paris, Hachette, 1913
- Le beau passé .., Paris, La Table ronde 1946
- Le Duc de La Force, Paris, F. Alcan, 1931
- Le grand Conti, Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1922.
- Le Maréchal de La Force, un serviteur de sept rois (1558-1652). [t.1-2], Paris, Émile-Paul frères, 1924-1928
- Les Caumont La Force ; dix siècles d’histoire de France, Paris, Fasquelle 1960
- Les Châteaux de la Sarthe, Paris, Delmas 1960
- Les prisons du Bossu de la Fronde : Armand de Bourbon, prince de Conti, Paris, Revue des deux mondes, 1922
- Les reines de l’émigration, Paris, 1907-1908
- Louis XIV et sa cour, Paris, Productions de Paris, 1959
- Pierre de Nolhac, Paris, Beauchesne, 1938