Melchior de Polignac (October 11, 1661– November 20, 1742), was a French diplomat, Roman Catholic cardinal and neo-Latin poet. Events 1138 - A massive earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. 1531 - Huldrych Zwingli is killed Events 284 - Diocletian was chosen as Roman Emperor. 762 - Bögü Khan of the Uyghurs, Year 1742 ( MDCCXLII) was a Common year starting on Monday (link will display the full calendar of the Gregorian calendar (or a This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. A cardinal is a senior ecclesiastical official usually a bishop, of the Catholic Church. The term New Latin or Neo-Latin is used to describe a form the Latin language used between the end of the Medieval Latin period (c
A younger son of Armand XVI, marquis de Polignac, he was born at Lavoûte-sur-Loire, near Le Puy-en-Velay, Auvergne. Le Puy-en-Velay ( Lo Puèi de Velai in Occitan, pronounced ˈpœj də ˈvəlaj is a commune of south-central France Auvergne ( Occitan: Auvèrnhe/Auvèrnha) was the name of an historically independent county in the center of France, as well as later a Province of At an early age he achieved distinction as a diplomat. In 1695 he was sent as ambassador to Poland, where he succeeded in bringing about the election of François-Louis de Bourbon, prince de Conti as successor to John Sobieski (1697). Poland (Polska officially the Republic of Poland François Louis de Bourbon ( April 30 1664 - February 9 1709) was Prince de Conti, succeeding his brother Louis Armand I de Bourbon John III Sobieski, (Jan III Sobieski (17 August 1629 - 17 June 1696 was one of the most notable monarchs of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth The subsequent failure of this intrigue led to his temporary disgrace, but in 1702 he was restored to favour, and in 1712 he was sent as the plenipotentiary of Louis XIV of France to the Congress of Utrecht. The word plenipotentiary (from the Latin, plenus + potens, full + power has two meanings Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent The Treaty of Utrecht that established the Peace of Utrecht, rather than a single document comprised a series of individual peace treaties signed in the Dutch
During the regency he became involved in the Cellamare conspiracy, and was relegated to Flanders for three years. Flanders (Vlaanderen Flandre Flandern is a geographical region located in parts of present day Belgium, France, and the Netherlands. From 1725 to 1732 he acted as a French emissary at the Holy See. The Holy See is the episcopal jurisdiction of the Bishop of Rome, commonly known as the Pope, and is the preeminent Episcopal see of the Roman Catholic In 1726, he received the Archbishopric of Auch, and he died at Paris in 1742. Paris (ˈpærɨs in English; in French) is the Capital of France and the country's largest city He left unfinished a metrical refutation of Lucretius which was published after his death by the abbé de Rothelin (Anti-Lucretius, 1745), and was very popular in its day. Titus Lucretius Carus (ca 99 BC- ca 55 BC was a Roman Poet and Philosopher.
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Seat 37 Académie française 1704-1741 |
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