Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force( 5 March 1675 – 20 July 1726) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques- Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen.
He was a member of the Académie française.
Bertrand Nompar de Caumont, marquis de La Force
Bertrand Nompar de Caumont, marquis de La Force
( 1 August 1724 – 22 January 1773) was a French nobleman, the son of Jean François de Caumont( 1694 – 1755) and Jeanne de Maury( died 1770).
He was a knight, and held the titles of seigneur de Beauvilla then marquis de La Force, Caumont and Taillebourg, comte de Mussidan and baron de Castelnau- Les- Milandes.
In the royal household he was appointed as Garde du Corps du Roi and Gentilhomme de la Chambre.
Armand-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force
Armand-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force (7 May 1679 – 3 July 1761) was a French nobleman and peer, a son of Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Suzanne de Beringhen.
He held the title of Marquis de Boësse until the death of his elder brother, Henri-Jacques Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force.
He assumed the title of duc de La Force and became a peer at the closing of parliament 13 March 1727.
Charlotte-Rose de Caumont de La Force
Charlotte- Rose de Caumont de La Force or Mademoiselle de La Force( 1654–1724) was a French novelist and poet.
Her best- known work was her 1698 fairy tale" Persinette" which was adapted by the Brothers Grimm in 1812 as the story" Rapunzel".
She was the daughter of François de Caumont de La Force( eighth son of Marshal de La Force), marquis de Castelmoron and of Marguerite de Viçose.
Raised as a Huguenot Protestant, she converted to Catholicism in 1686 and received a pension of 1000" écus" from Louis XIV.
Like other famous women writers of the 17th century, she was named a member of the Academy of the Ricovrati of Padua.
Her first novels were in the popular vein of" histoires secrètes", short novels recounting the" secret history" of a famous person and linking the action generally to an amorous intrigue, such as" Histoire secrete de Bourgogne"( 1694)," Histoire secrète de Henri IV, roi de Castille"( 1695)," Histoire de Marguerite de Valois, reine de Navarre"( 1696).
She had a long affair with the much younger Charles Briou, finally managing to marry him secretly with the king's permission, but her family and his father intervened to have the marriage annulled.
In 1697, due to gossip and scandalous rumors about her, the king forced Mademoiselle de La Force to take to the Benedictine abbey of Gercy- en- Brie or risk losing her pension, and it was from here that she wrote her memoirs:" Pensées chrétiennes de défunte de Mlle de La Force".
She is also well known for participating in the 17th century vogue of" contes des fées" along with Henriette- Julie de Murat, Marie Catherine d' Aulnoy, Marie- Jeanne Lhéritier, and Charles Perrault.
She wrote" Les Contes des Contes"( 1698) and" Les Contes des Fées".
These works included the tale" Fairer- than- a- Fairy".
Her novels had a great deal of success in Europe in the 18th century.
Mademoiselle de La Force is featured as a main character in Kate Forsyth's" Bitter Greens"; a fairy- tale retelling of the" Rapunzel" tale.
Henri-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
Henri-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
( 1582 – January 1678) was Duc de La Force and peer of France.
He was the son of Marshal of France, Jacques- Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force and Charlotte de Gontaut, daughter of Marshal Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron.
First marquis de Castelnau, later Duc de La Force after the death of his brother, he served King Louis XIII on many occasions in the army, under his father, as Maréchal- de- camp.
Alixandre de Caumont
Alixandre de Caumont( died 1357), also known as Anissant III de Caumont, Lord of Sainte Bazeille was a 14th century French noble.
Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force
Jacques-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force (died 19 April 1699) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Jacques de Caumont, Marquis de Boësse (died 1634) and Louise de Saint Georges.
He held his late father's title from the age of two until the death of his grandfather, Henri-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (who had only held that title for three years due to the death of his older brother).
Jacques-Nompar very rapidly assumed the title of duc de La Force at the closing of parliament 10 February 1678 and was acknowledged a peer, subject to conversion to Catholicism.
The nobleman was however for many years an active Huguenot and refused to abjure, thus was confined in the Bastille, and then in a monastery.
He afterwards abjured, but actually died a Protestant, professing the Protestant faith on his death-bed in 1699.
Armand Nompar de Caumont
Armand-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force (30 October 1580 – 16 December 1675) was a Marshal of France and peer of France.
He was the son of another Marshal of France, Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force and Charlotte de Gontaut, daughter of Marshal Armand de Gontaut, baron de Biron.
Like his father, Armand-Nompar was a Huguenot Protestant.
Jacques-Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force
Jacques- Nompar de Caumont, duc de La Force( 30 December 1558 – 10 May 1652) was a marshal of France and peer of France.
He was the son of a Huguenot, Francois de Caumont, lord of Castelnau, and Philippe de Beaupoil.
He survived the St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre in 1572, but his father and older brother Armand were killed.
Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force
Jacques-Nompar III de Caumont, duc de La Force (18 April 1714 – 14 July 1755) was a French nobleman and peer, the son of Armand-Nompar II de Caumont, duc de La Force and Anne-Elisabeth Gruel de Boismont.
He held the title of Marquis de La Force until he succeeded his father as duc de La Force in 1761.

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