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Choiseul, César, comte Du Plessis-Praslin, duc de

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Choiseul, César, comte Du Plessis-Praslin, duc de (sāzär` kôNt dü plĕsē-prälăN` dük də shwäzöl`), 1598–1675, marshal of France, diplomat, and soldier. He served as ambassador to Turin and commanded the army in Lombardy during the Thirty Years War. In the Fronde Fronde (frôNd), 1648–53, series of outbreaks during the minority of King Louis XIV, caused by the efforts of the Parlement of
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 he sided with Cardinal Mazarin and defeated the vicomte de Turenne Turenne, Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, vicomte de (äNrē` də lä t
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 at Rethel (1650). Choiseul negotiated the Anglo-French alliance of 1670.


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