Chief among them were the comte de Noailles and his wife, the comtesse de Noailles, who had been appointed the Dauphine's Mistress of the Household by Louis XV.

The French and Bavarians had been driven almost to the Rhine when Noailles and the king came to battle.

Neither Vialart nor Noailles appears to have realised that the book had strongly Jansenist overtones, and had thought that they were simply approving a pious manual of devotion.

However, Louis-Antoine de Noailles, who was now the cardinal Archbishop of Paris was embarrassed and reluctant to condemn a book he had previously recommended, and thus hesitated.

The British forces, in alliance with those of Hanover and Hesse, defeated a French army under the duc de Noailles although France and Britain had not yet declared war.

There, behind the Forbach stream running into the Main, Noailles had stationed the Duc of Gramont with a blocking force of some 23, 000 troops in a line that ran from Dettingen to the Spessart Heights behind the marshy stream and had lined the south bank of the Main with artillery that could fire without interference on the Pragmatic army's left flank while about 12, 000 French troops marched south on Aschaffenburg crossing the Main behind the allied army.

For this he had enlisted the services of the Duke of Noailles and Count Löwendahl, a Dane who had gained experience in the Great Northern War.

From his vantage point near Notre Dame de Bois Louis XV, attended by the Dauphin, Noailles, the Duke of Richelieu, and Louis XV's Minister of War, the Marquis d ' Argenson, had witnessed his best infantry fall back in disorder.

Convinced it was over, Noailles had implored the King to seek safety ; but Saxe reassured him that the battle was not lost.

Noailles, the French ambassador, speaks of the support given to Rogers by the greatest part of the people: " even his children assisted at it, comforting him in such a manner that it seemed as if he had been led to a wedding.

The furor was so great that the premiere of another film financed by the de Noailles, Jean Cocteau's The Blood of a Poet, had to be delayed for over two years until outrage over L ' Age d ' Or had died down.

He met and had profound personal relationships with religious leaders ranging from Cardinal Louis Antoine de Noailles, the Catholic Archbishop of Paris to John Potter, the Anglican ( Episcopalian ) Archbishop of Canterbury, both of whom became members of Zinzendorf's Order of the Grain of Mustard Seed, pledging to use their positions of power to serve Christ.

Campan recalls a pleasant anecdote: the king said to the duc de Noailles, that with Madame du Barry he had discovered new pleasures ; " Sire-answered the duke-that's because your Majesty has never been in a brothel.

In obedience to Cardinal de Noailles, Archbishop of Paris, he left the Cistercian abbey of Sept-Fonds, to which he had retired, and settled in Paris, where he was placed at the head of the famous seminary of Saint Magloire.

In 1689 the Duke of Noailles had led French forces there aimed at bringing further pressure to bear on the Spanish by re-igniting a peasant rising against Charles II, which initially broke out in 1687.

The attack on Dauphiné had required Noailles give up troops to bolster Catinat, condemning him to a passive campaign in Catalonia.

Noailles, who had become Archbishop of Paris and cardinal meanwhile, and who in 1702 discarded a relic that had long been venerated at Châlons as the umbilical cord of Jesus, was not prepared to withdraw the approbation which he had given to the book, and Jansenism again raised its head.

" The de Noailles, both Catholics, were threatened with excommunication by The Vatican because of the film ’ s blasphemous final scene ( which visually links Jesus Christ with the writings of the Marquis de Sade ), so they made the decision in 1934 to withdraw all prints from circulation, and L ' Age d ' Or was not seen again until 1979, after their deaths.

2010's MIDI saw around 15 acts play at the Villa Noailles complex and brought the new ' MIDI Night ' event to Alamanarre Beach in the early hours of Sunday morning.

For the 1735 campaign the allied forces in northern Italy came under the command of the Duke de Noailles, elevated to Marshal after his successful contributions to the Rhine campaign.

To counter this threat, Louis XV and Noailles led large reinforcements south, while Maurice de Saxe, illegitimate son of Augustus II the Strong and, since March, a Marshal of France, was left in charge in Flanders with a reduced army of between 50, 000 to 60, 000 men facing an allied army of 96, 000.

* The King leads an allied attack on the forces of the Duc de Noailles at the Battle of Dettingen, preventing an early French victory and causing their retreat over to the west of the Rhine.

The only places left to France were Mole St. Nicolas, held by Noailles, and Cap-Français, where, with 5000 troops, Rochambeau was at bay.

To make matters worse, Charles de Noailles was forced to withdraw his membership from the Jockey Club.

Exploiting the situation, Noailles captured Camprodon on 22 May, but a larger Spanish army under the Duke of Villahermosa forced him to withdraw back to Roussillon in August.

The Allied naval presence compelled the French fleet back to the safety of Toulon, which, in turn, forced Noailles to withdraw to the line of the Ter, harassed en route by General Trinxería's miquelets.

At the age of fourteen, against his will, he was forced to marry Anne Catherine de Noailles.

Upon examining the 101 propositions condemned by Unigenitus, Noailles determined that as set out in the bull and apart from their context in the Réflexions morales, some of the propositions condemned by Unigenitus were in fact orthodox.

* To the 18th century, it was Noailles which made their seigneurery

* 2 February: Secret marriage of the Count of Toulouse and Marie Victoire de Noailles ( already widowed daughter in law of Mme de Montespan ) in Paris ; their marriage was only announced after the death of the Regent ;

However, the Dudley brothers were only welcome at court as long as King Philip was there ; later in 1555 they were even ordered out of London and the next year, in the wake of a conspiracy by their distant cousin Henry Sutton Dudley, the French ambassador Antoine de Noailles reported that the government was seeking to apprehend " the children of the Duke of Northumberland ", who were said to be on the run.

On 22 July that year his 70 year old mother ( the dowager Duchess Françoise de Noailles ), his wife ( the Duchess Anne-Louise-Henriette ), their eldest daughter Louise ( the Viscomte d ' Ayen virtue of marriage to her cousin Marc Antoine de Noaille ), and their second daughter, Adrienne de la Fayette, were condemned to the guillotine ; Adrienne was spared at the last moment ( possibly due to American intervention-there is debate ) only after her grandmother, mother, and sister were beheaded within her sight.

Noailles had a complex relationship with the Jansenists ; while he condemned their propositions, more orthodox theologians saw in his own teachings hints of Jansenism, and Noailles was an opponent of the Jesuits in their attacks on the sect.

About the time of the battle of Dettingen in Bavaria in June 1743, when the British army was encamped at Aschaffenburg, Pringle, through the Earl of Stair, brought about an agreement with the Duc de Noailles, the French commander, that military hospitals on both sides be considered as neutral, immune sanctuaries for the sick and wounded, and should be mutually protected.

The present Duke of Noailles is a descendant of Henri François through his grand daughter who was executed in the revolution.

Via her mother, Anna de Noailles is a great-great-granddaughter of Sophronius of Vratsa, one of the leading figures of the Bulgarian National Revival, through his grandson Stefan Bogoridi, caimacam of Moldavia.

A French army, under Marshal Noailles, was being collected on the middle Rhine to deal with this new force.

Both Broglie and Noailles were now on the strict defensive behind the Rhine.

The schism carried on for some time, however, and it was not until 1728 that Noailles submitted to the pope.

Meanwhile Marshal Catinat led the French forces in Dauphiné against the Duke of Savoy, whilst Marshal Noailles commanded forces deployed on the border of Catalonia.

Negotiations began on October 18 between Lieutenant Colonel Thomas Dundas and Major Alexander Ross ( who represented the British ) and Lieutenant Colonel Laurens ( who represented the Americans ) and the Marquis de Noailles ( who represented the French ).

Late in 1929, on the strength of Un Chien Andalou, Buñuel and Dalí were commissioned to make another short film by Marie-Laurie and Charles de Noailles, owners of a private cinema on the Place des États-Unis and financial supporters of productions by Jacques Manuel, Man Ray and Pierre Chenal.

Besides the teenage son of the Duc d ' Orléans, Louis Philippe, a future king of France, liberal aristocrats of the type of the duc d ' Aiguillon, the prince de Broglie, or the vicomte de Noailles, and the bourgeoisie who formed the mass of the members, the club contained such figures as " Père " Michel Gerard, a peasant proprietor from Tuel-en-Montgermont, in Brittany, whose rough common sense was admired as the oracle of popular wisdom, and whose countryman's waistcoat and plaited hair were later on to become the model for the Jacobin fashion.

Elsewhere, Noailles secured the valuable sea port of Rosas in Catalonia on 9 June before withdrawing into Roussillon.

On 27 May Marshal Noailles, supported by French warships, soundly defeated the Marquis of Escalona's Spanish forces at the Battle of Torroella on the banks of the river Ter ; the French proceeded to take Palamós on 10 June, Gerona on 29 June, and Hostalric, opening the route to Barcelona.

She died on 15 April 1719 and was buried in the choir at Saint-Cyr, bequeathing her estate at Maintenon to her niece, Françoise Charlotte d ' Aubigné, the wife of Adrien-Maurice, 3rd duc de Noailles, and her brother Charles ' only daughter.

An elite holiday resort and spa town on the shores of Lake Geneva (), for two centuries, it has hosted many Royals such as Kings Edward VII and George V of the United Kingdom and King Farouk of Egypt, and celebrities such as countess Anna de Noailles and Marcel Proust.

Louis XIV received the Bull at Fontainebleau on September 24, 1713, and sent a copy to Cardinal Noailles, who revoked his approbation of the Moral Reflections given in 1695.

He, however, drew up two briefs, the one demanding the unconditional acceptance of the bull by Noailles within fifteen days, on pain of turning in his Hat and incurring canonical punishment, the other more paternally pointing out the gravity of the cardinal's offence.

On the one hand, Noailles gave no hope of submission, while, on the other, the more severe of the Briefs was rejected by the king as subversive of the " Gallican Liberties ".