biography
| name: |
Choiseul(-Amboise), Etienne François, duc de (Duke of)
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pronunciation:
[shwazoel]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1719–85)
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| biography:
| French statesman and minister of Louis XV, born in Lorraine, NE France. He served with credit in the Austrian Wars of Succession, and became Duc de Choiseul and foreign minister in 1758. He arranged the alliance between France and Austria against Frederick the Great (1756), and obtained good terms for France at the end of the Seven Years' War (1763). He improved the army and navy, and developed trade and industry. Madame du Barry alienated Louis from his able minister, who retired in 1770. |
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