Louis Hercule Timoléon de Cossé-Brissac, duc de Brissac (14 February 1734, Paris

Paris

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-9 September 1792, Versailles

Versailles

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) was a French politician and peer of France. He was grand panetier de France

Grand Panetier

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, governor of Paris

Paris

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, capitaine colonel of the cent Suisses of the garde du roi

Garde du Corps (France)

The Garde du Corps was the senior formation of the King of France's Household Cavalry within the Maison du Roi.-History:The oldest company in the Garde du Corps was the Company of Scottish Archers, later just the 1st Scottish Company or Garde Écossaise, formed in 1419 from Scots that fought for...

, and a knight in various orders. He was killed in the 9 September massacres

9 September massacres

The 9 September massacres were two series of massacres of prisoners at Versailles on 9 September 1792 during the French Revolution. They occurred in the context of the September Massacres. Claude Fournier was accused of complicity in them...

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Marriage and issue

Louis-Hercule de Cossé-Brissac married in 1760, to Diane-Hortense Mancini-Mazarini (1742–1808), great-great niece of cardinal Mazarin, and they had :

• Adélaïde (1765–1820), married in 1782 with Victurnien-Jean-Baptiste de Rochechouart, duc de Mortemart
• Jules Gabriel Timoléon (1771–1775)

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