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[4] [failed verification] [5] [6] [7] However, the former authentic titles transmitted regularly can be recognized as part of the name after a request to the Department of Justice. [8] Families of the French nobility could have two origins as to their principle of nobility: the families of immemorial nobility and the ennobled families. [9]
Title extinguished in 1801 with the 40th duke-bishop Louis-Maxime de Sabran (1739-1811). Duchy of Reims: List: 1200 Archiepiscopal duchy-peerage in 1200 for the Archbishops of Reims. Title extinguished in 1801 with the 45th duke-archbishop Alexandre-Angélique de Talleyrand-Périgord (1736-1821).
The prestigious title and position of Peer of France (French: Pair de France) was held by the greatest, highest-ranking members of the French nobility. [1] French peerage thus differed from British peerage (to whom the term "baronage", also employed as the title of the lowest noble rank, was applied in its generic sense), for the vast majority ...
For an explanation of the French peerage, see the article Peerage of France. Note that peerages and titles were distinct, and the date given for the extinction of the peerage is not necessarily the same as that of the extinction of the title. For more on noble titles and distinctions, see French nobility.
The title of "duke and peer" (Fr: duc et pair) is one of the highest honors in the French nobility, ranking just after the princes of the blood, which are themselves the direct descendants of the royal blood and are considered peers by birth. The word peer comes from the Latin paris, meaning "equal in dignity".
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1784), London, Royal Collection.Calonne is shown in the costume of his rank, noblesse de robe. Under the Ancien Régime of France, the Nobles of the Robe or Nobles of the Gown (French: noblesse de robe) were French aristocrats whose rank came from holding certain judicial or administrative posts.
In this category belong only those articles that are about noble titles that were bestowed by: either the ruling king of France during the existence of the kingdom and pretenders afterwards (843-present), as fount of honour
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