Jules de Polignac
Jules de Polignac | |
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Portrait by François Gérard | |
| Prime Minister of France | |
| In office 8 August 1829 – 29 July 1830 | |
| Monarch | Charles X |
| Preceded by | Jean-Baptiste de Martignac |
| Succeeded by | Casimir de Rochechouart |
| French Ambassador to the United Kingdom | |
| In office 28 December 1822 – 4 January 1828 | |
| Appointed by | Jean-Baptiste de Villèle |
| Preceded by | François-René de Chateaubriand |
| Succeeded by | Pierre de Montmorency-Laval |
| Personal details | |
| Born | 14 May 1780 |
| Died | 2 March 1847 (aged 66) |
| Resting place | Picpus Cemetery |
| Party | Ultra-royalist |
| Spouses | Barbara Campbell
(m. 1816; died 1819) |
| Children | Armand Seyna-Camille Alphonse Ludovic Yolande Camille Edmond |
| Parent(s) | Jules, 1st Duke of Polignac Yolande de Polastron |
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Jules Auguste Armand Marie de Polignac, Count of Polignac (French: [ʒyl də pɔliɲak]; 14 May 1780 – 30 March 1847), 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.