Jules de Polignac
Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac (French pronunciation: [ʒyl də pɔliɲak]; 14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847),[1] then Prince of Polignac, and briefly 3rd Duke of Polignac in 1847, was a French statesman and ultra-royalist politician after the Revolution. He served as prime minister under Charles X, just before the July Revolution in 1830 that overthrew the senior line of the House of Bourbon.
Jules de Polignac
14 May 1780
Versailles, Île-de-France, Kingdom of France
2 March 1847 (aged 66)
Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Yvelines, France
Jules married twice. He was married firstly, in 1816, at London to Barbara Campbell (Ardneaves House, Islay 22 Aug. 1788 – Saint-Mandé 23 May 1819), a young Scotswoman, who later returned with him to France, with whom he had two children:
After his first wife's death in 1819, he married in London, on 3 June 1824, Charlotte, comtesse de Choiseul, widow of comte Cesar de Choiseul (d. 1821), née the Honourable (Maria) Charlotte Parkyns (St. Marylebone, 6 Jan. 1792 – 1/2 Sep. 1864). She was the youngest child (of six children) of Thomas Parkyns, 1st Baron Rancliffe (created 1795)[2] and his wife Elizabeth Anne James, and sister of George Augustus Anne Parkyns, Lord Rancliffe[3] and Henrietta, Lady Rumbold (1789–1833), wife of Sir William Rumbold, 3rd Bt.[4] He had met her while she was renewing her passport at the London embassy, where he was the Ambassador (1823–1829).[5] They had five children, two of whom were born while their father was in prison:
The couple's marriage was annulled by the French Chamber of Peers, but Jules and Charlotte went to England after his release in 1836, and they renewed their vows before the French consul in 1837.[9]