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See also: born in See also: Paris on the 16th of See also: December 1716, son of Philippe Jules See also: Francois, duc de See also: Nevers, and Maria See also: Anne Spinola, and See also: great-See also: nephew of See also: Cardinal See also: Mazarin
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He was educated at the See also: College See also: Louis le
See also: Grand, and married at the age of fourteen
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He served in the See also: campaigns in See also: Italy (1733) and Bohemia (1740), but had to give up soldiering on account of his weak See also: health
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He was subsequently ambassador at See also: Rome (1748-1752), Berlin (1755-1756) and See also: London, where he negotiated the treaty of Paris (loth of See also: February 1763)
.
From 1787 to 1789 he was a member of the Council of See also: State
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He did not emigrate during the Revolution, but lost all his See also: money and was imprisoned in 1793
.
He recovered his liberty after the fall of Robespierre, and died in
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Paris on the 25th of February 1798
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In 1743 he was elected to the, See also: Academy for a poem_entitled Delie, and from 1763 he devoted the greater See also: part of his See also: time to the administration of the duchy of Nevers and to belles-lettres
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He wrote much and with great facility; but his writings are of little value, his Fables being his best See also: pro-
ductions
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His Euvres completes were published in Paris in 1796; an edition of his 1 Euvres posthumes was brought out in Paris by Francois de See also: Neufchateau in 1807, and his Correspondance secrete was published in Paris by de Lescure in 1866
.
See L
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Perey (pseud. for Mlle . Luce Herpin), Un See also: Petit-Neveu de Mazarin (Paris, 189o) ; La Fin du X VIII' siecle: le duc de Nivernais (Paris, 1891), by the-same writer; Sainte-Beuve, Causeries du lundi (vol. xiii.) ; Dupin, Eloge du duc de Nivernais (184o) ; See also: Abbe Blampignon, Le Duc de Nivernais, d'apres sa correspondance inedite (1888)
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