Louis Marc Pons, marquis de Pons
Louis Marc Pons, marquis de Pons (fl. 1789), was a French diplomat.
He was the ambassador of France in Stockholm from 1783 to 1789.
He was the father of the politically active Camille du Bois de la Motte.
Pierre du Bois de Dunilac
Pierre du Bois de Dunilac (May 5, 1943 at Herzogenbuchsee (canton of Bern) – June 23, 2007 in Pully), was a Swiss writer, political scientist, philanthropist and humanist.
Barry Du Bois
Barry Du Bois( born 4 August 1960) is an Australian designer, building expert, television presenter and author.
Du Bois is currently a co-host and design/ building expert on Network 10's lifestyle program" The Living Room".
Du Bois first appeared on reality renovation show" The Renovators" as a building mentor and judge.
Camille du Bois de la Motte
Camille du Bois de la Motte (fl. 1789-92) was a French marchioness and political activist.
In 1789, she was involved in the plans of Princess Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte, a future queen of Sweden, to depose King Gustav III of Sweden, and acted as the link between Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte and the Fersen family.
She was the daughter of Louis Marc Pons, marquis de Pons, the ambassador of France in Sweden in 1783-1789.
As she had done during his tenure in Madrid, she accompanied him to Stockholm, where she acted as his hostess and secretary, and assisted him by creating a net of valuable contacts within the aristocracy and diplomatic corps through her role as a hostess.
In 1784, she made herself the personal friend of Princess Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte during the absence of Sophie von Fersen, and that summer, the three women made a pledge of friendship by uniting in the order "La verite et constante amitie" at the Rosersberg Palace.
France, which was the ally of both Sweden and Russia, opposed the Russo-Swedish War (1788–90), and her father wished to initiate peace negotiations between Sweden and Russia through France.
Camille du Bois de la Motte was given the task to use her friendship with Charlotte to arrange a meeting with her father and the King Gustav III of Sweden.
During the meeting, in the park of Karlberg Palace, Camille du Bois de la Motte handled the negotiations alone with the King in the presence of her father and Charlotte.
She convinced the king to agree to peace negotiations.
They were to be handled by her father, who would keep in touch with Russia through the French ambassador in Russia, and the Swedish king through Charlotte.
The negotiations, however, failed, and she told Charlotte that she believed Gustav III to have agreed to them to stall time and that it had been his intention to trick France all along.
During the war, her friendship with Charlotte was criticized, as it was believed that she used it to inform the foreign diplomats in Stockholm of war secrets given to her by Charlotte.
Princess Charlotte denied this, but it was likely the truth.
During the Riksdag of 1789, Hedvig Elisabeth Charlotte prepared to depose Gustav III and place her husband Duke Charles upon the throne, and the war and the Union and Security Act had made her a leading part of the opposition from the nobility.
She cooperated with Prince Frederick Adolf and Gustaf Adolf Reuterholm.
The plan was to force Charles to act as a symbol of the opposition to the Union and Security Act when the time was right.
When the time arrived to make Charles act, however, he refused, which effectively discontinued the coup.
Camille du Bois de la Motte is known to have been involved in the attempted coup: she acted as a channel between the party of the princess and that of the von Fersen family, who represented the opposition of the nobility, as well as the diplomatic corps of Stockholm.
Camille du Bois de la Motte left Sweden with her father when the diplomatic contact between France and Sweden was severed during the war in late 1789.
She followed her father to Berlin, where she acted as his secretary and hostess during his post there.
They later returned to France.
She and Charlotte continued their correspondence even after all correspondence between France and Sweden were banned by Gustav III after the French Revolution.
She may have influenced Charlotte's political views:
initially, Charlotte, as a sympathizer of a constitutional monarchy, welcomed the revolution, but her views became conservative during the 1790s.
Camille du Bois de la Motte was a French royalist, whose family lost its assets during the revolution.
She acted as the agent of Charlotte in France, and Charlotte's friend, Sophie von Fersen, are known to have sent sensitive letters to Axel von Fersen the Younger through her.
In 1792, Camille du Bois de la Motte warned Charlotte that the next appointed ambassador of France to Sweden, Raymond de Verninac Saint-Maur, was an untrustworthy Jacobin, a warning she is to have sent Charlotte on the mission of queen Marie Antoinette.
W. E. B. Du Bois
William Edward Burghardt
Du Bois (February 23, 1868 – August 27, 1963) was an American sociologist, historian, civil rights activist, Pan-Africanist, author, writer and editor.
Born in Great Barrington, Massachusetts, Du Bois grew up in a relatively tolerant and integrated community, and after completing graduate work at the University of Berlin and Harvard, where he was the first African American to earn a doctorate, he became a professor of history, sociology and economics at Atlanta University.
Due to his contributions in the African-American community he was seen as a member of a Black elite that supported some aspects of eugenics for blacks.
Du Bois was one of the founders of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) in 1909.
Before that, Du Bois had risen to national prominence as the leader of the Niagara Movement, a group of African-American activists that wanted equal rights for blacks.
Du Bois and his supporters opposed the Atlanta compromise, an agreement crafted by Booker T. Washington which provided that Southern blacks would work and submit to white political rule, while Southern whites guaranteed that blacks would receive basic educational and economic opportunities.
Instead, Du Bois insisted on full civil rights and increased political representation, which he believed would be brought about by the African-American intellectual elite.
He referred to this group as the Talented Tenth, a concept under the umbrella of Racial uplift, and believed that African Americans needed the chances for advanced education to develop its leadership.
Racism was the main target of Du Bois's polemics, and he strongly protested against lynching, Jim Crow laws, and discrimination in education and employment.
His cause included people of color everywhere, particularly Africans and Asians in colonies.
He was a proponent of Pan-Africanism and helped organize several Pan-African Congresses to fight for the independence of African colonies from European powers.
Du Bois made several trips to Europe, Africa and Asia.
After World War I, he surveyed the experiences of American black soldiers in France and documented widespread prejudice and racism in the United States military.
Du Bois was a prolific author.
His collection of essays, "The Souls of Black Folk", is a seminal work in African-American literature; and his 1935 magnum opus, "Black Reconstruction in America", challenged the prevailing orthodoxy that blacks were responsible for the failures of the Reconstruction Era.
Borrowing a phrase from Frederick Douglass, he popularized the use of the term color line to represent the injustice of the separate but equal doctrine prevalent in American social and political life.
He opens "The Souls of Black Folk" with the central thesis of much of his life's work: "The problem of the twentieth century is the problem of the color-line."
He wrote one of the first scientific treatises in the field of American sociology, and he published three autobiographies, each of which contains essays on sociology, politics and history.
In his role as editor of the NAACP's journal "The Crisis", he published many influential pieces.
Du Bois believed that capitalism was a primary cause of racism, and he was generally sympathetic to socialist causes throughout his life.
He was an ardent peace activist and advocated nuclear disarmament.
The United States' Civil Rights Act, embodying many of the reforms for which Du Bois had campaigned his entire life, was enacted a year after his death.
Chrétien DuBois
Chrétien du Bois( 1597- 1655) was a French official in the Comté( Count) of Coupigny.
( variant names Corstiaen( Christaesne, Christophe.
Noel, Noue, Cristoff, Crijin, Cretien, Gristyn, Guislain)
Many languages were spoken in the region, Old French( Flemish- French), Dutch, German, and Corsican since Flanders area was part of the Spanish Netherlands.
He was the father of three Protestant French- speaking immigrants to colonial New York.
One of these, Louis Dubois, was among the founders of New Paltz, New York, in the late 1600s.
Chretien du Bois was the son of Antoine du Bois and Anne Cousin, and was married to Françoise le Poivre.
Chretien du Bois lived in the village of Wicres, outside of Lille.
Documents from the Archives Départementales de Lille indicate he was bailli, lieutenant, greffier& receveur of the Comté of Coupigny.
He died sometime after 1641.
Further information of the area and genealogy can be obtained from the town website https://www.annequin.fr/histoire.htm which states( Modern French) Between 1425 and 1550, we have little information about Annequin and his lords.
We can just quote them.
The son of Philip, John II of the Bos lived 71 years( 1425- 1496).
Then Jean III du Bos succeeded him until 1501.
Anne du Bos then benefited from the lordship until his death in 1516.
It is then his son Antoine du Bos( said Antoine de Fiennes) who is the owner until 1537.
Finally, Charles du Bois became the lord until 1550, and Eustache de Fiennes succeeded him.
If the sources remain meager, they allow however to know a little more about Eustache de Fiennes.
This lord of Annequin is also Count of Chaumont, Viscount of Fruges, Baron of Elnes, and Lord of Esquerdes.
Converted to Calvinism, he takes part in the troubles that shake the Artois remained Catholic in the last third of the sixteenth century.
He is one of the Protestant leaders who support the Prince of Orange against Spain( Catholic) who administers our region by inheritance from Charles V.
In 1577, Eustache de Fiennes was even the leader of the Orange party in Saint- Omer, and in 1578 he participated in the Calvinist attempts to seize power in Arras.
Unfortunately for him, this project is a failure and leads him, in 1585, before the Council of Disturbances, which condemned him to banishment and confiscation of his property, including the lordship of Annequin.
He died in 1596, and his son Guislain sold the lordship ten years later, to Maximilien du Chastel.
in French
https://www.annequin.fr/histoire.htm
Entre 1425 et 1550, nous ne disposons que de peu d’information sur Annequin et ses seigneurs.
Nous pouvons simplement les citer.
Le fils de Philippe, Jean II du Bos vécut 71 ans( 1425- 1496).
Puis Jean III du Bos lui a succédé jusqu'en 1501.
Anne du Bos a ensuite bénéficié de la seigneurie jusqu'à sa mort en 1516.
C’est alors son fils Antoine du Bos( dit Antoine de Fiennes) qui en est le propriétaire jusqu'en 1537.
Enfin, Charles du Bois en devient le seigneur jusqu'en 1550, et Eustache de Fiennes lui succède.
Si les sources restent maigres, elles permettent toutefois d ’en savoir un peu plus sur Eustache de Fiennes.
Ce seigneur d’ Annequin est également comte de Chaumont, vicomte de Fruges, baron d' Elnes, et seigneur d'Esquerdes.
Converti au calvinisme, il prend part aux troubles qui secouent l'Artois demeurée catholique dans le dernier tiers du XVI ° siècle.
Il est l’un des chefs protestants qui soutiennent le prince d' Orange contre l'Espagne( catholique) qui administre notre région par héritage de Charles- Quint.
En 1577, Eustache de Fiennes est même le meneur du parti orangiste à Saint- Omer, et en 1578, il participe aux tentatives calvinistes de prise de pouvoir à Arras.
Malheureusement pour lui, ce projet est un échec et le conduit, en 1585, devant le Conseil des troubles qui le condamne au bannissement et à la confiscation de ses biens, do nt la seigneurie d'Annequin.
Il meurt en 1596, et son fils Guislain vend la seigneurie une dizaine d'année plus tard, à Maximilien du Chastel.
Some internet pages claim that Chretien du Bois' wife was named" Cornelia."
This claim was first made by researcher Matthew Hilt Murphy in a 1980 presentation later re-printed in William Heidgerd," The American Descendants of Chretien Dubois of Wicres, France."
Murphy referenced a 1646 item in the church records of Middlebourg, Zeeland referring to" Bois/ Cornelia du/ vefve de Jen de Chrestien, native de Tournay."
Murphy has been identified as one who apparently was not familiar with French naming patterns, and his work denounced.
However, although the French custom of referring to women in documents by their maiden names is correct, naming patterns in the 15th and 16th century traditionally identify a location as the last name, following through with any identifying titles.
We can see this naming pattern change in the late 17th century, with immigration patterns as the VOC expanded their trade routes.
Murphy identified to a woman who had married( 1) Jean du Bois and( 2) Chretien DuBois.
In fact, the record refers to a woman whose maiden name was" Cornelia du Bois", who was the widow of" Jean de Chrestien."
This does not identify Cretien du Bois, as there are many with variants of the last name Chrestien in the Nord archives, and many variations of Cornelia, which is a Dutch variant of Helene or the English variant of Elenore.
There is also transcription variations from older records on the name Cretien, with some identifying it as being misinterpreted from Sacré- tien.
Chretien du Bois is of particular interest to American genealogists, both because of the notability of his descendants and because several different versions of noble ancestry have been claimed for him.
Further DNA testing of several descendants including Sarah Du Bois Van Meter have tested positive in the nobility lineage.
Several prominent Americans figure among Chretien du Bois' descendants, including former governor of Massachusetts William Floyd Weld, actor Marlon Brando, Jr., painter Mary Cassatt, journalist Maria Shriver( wife of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger), Samuel Walton, General George Smith Patton III and film director George Lucas.
W. E. B. Du Bois is also said to be a descendant.
Charles du Bois de Vroylande
Jonkheer Charles Louis du Bois de Vroylande( 21 January 1835 – 30 December 1888) was a Belgian lawyer and politician.
He was governor of the province of Antwerp from 24 March 1887 until 30 December 1888.
Yolande Du Bois
Yolande Du Bois( October 21, 1900- 1961) was an American teacher known for her involvement in the Harlem Renaissance.
She is known as the daughter of W.E.B. Du Bois and the former Nina Gomer, and she was briefly married to poet Countee Cullen.
Du Bois graduated from Fisk University and later earned an MA from Columbia University.
She worked as a teacher, primarily in Baltimore, Maryland.
Kirsten Christensen
Kirsten Annette Christensen( born 1943) is a Danish painter and ceramist.
She has created large reliefs depicting existential themes such as old age, sickness, pollution and death.
Frédéric du Hen
Frédéric Charles du Hen( 27 May 1903 – 8 April 1992) was a Dutch middle- distance runner.
He competed in the men's 1500 metres at the 1928 Summer Olympics.

Question: Are Charles Du Bois De Vroylande and Kirsten Christensen of the same nationality?
Answer: no