POLIGNAC, DUC DE and DUCHESS DE

POLIGNAC, DUC DE and DUCHESS DE
   husband and wife; were chargeable with the extravagances of the court of Louis XVI., and were the first to emigrate at the outbreak of the Revolution, the former dying in 1817 and the latter in 1793.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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