biography
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Polignac, Auguste Jules Armand Marie, prince de
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pronunciation:
[poleenyak]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1780–1847)
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| biography:
| French statesman, born in Versailles, NC France. Arrested for conspiring against Napoleon (1804), he became a peer at the Bourbon Restoration. A committed exponent of papal and royal authority, he received the title of prince from the pope in 1820. English ambassador in 1823, he became in 1829 head of the last Bourbon ministry, which promulgated the Saint-Cloud Ordinances that cost Charles X his throne (1830). He was imprisoned until 1836, then lived in exile in England, returning in 1845 to Paris. |
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