Alexandre Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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French jurist (1708-1783)
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Place of Birth: Aix-en-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
About Alexandre Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles
- Alexandre Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d’Éguilles (1709–1783) was a French administrator who served as an unofficial envoy to Charles Edward Stuart during the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion.
- Taken prisoner after the Battle of Culloden in April 1746, he was released in 1747 and later held a senior legal post in the Provencal Regional Parliament.
- He was exiled from France in 1763 for opposing the suppression of the Jesuits but allowed to return in 1768 and died at home in March 1783.
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