Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan (15 November 1684, Paris

Paris

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 - 22 January 1776, Paris) was a French diplomat, soldier, chevalier des ordres du Roi and peer of France.

Family

He was the grandson of François Honorat de Beauvilliers and of Antoinette Servien and son of Paul de Beauvilliers and Henriette-Louise Colbert.

Life

He served as ambassador to Spain (where in 1716 he accompanied don Philip

Philip, Duke of Parma

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 to the baptismal font in the name of France), then as a member of the Regency council

Polysynody

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 in 1719, governor of Le Havre

Le Havre

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 and ambassador extraordinary to Rome in 1731. He was elected a member of the Académie française

Académie française

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 in 1726 and of the Académie des inscriptions in 1732.

External links

• Académie française