Charles-Auguste de Goyon, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Place of Birth: Torigni-sur-Vire, Normandy, France
About Charles-Auguste de Goyon
- Charles-Auguste de Goÿon de Matignon, comte de Gacé (1647-1729), was the French soldier, diplomat and Marshal of France. The youngest son of François de Goÿon, sieur of Matignon (died 1675) by his wife Anne née de Malon de Bercy, he was descended from the ancient noble Breton family de Bricquebec.A career soldier, Goÿon-Matignon rose to become Governor of Aunis (1688), Marshal of the French Army (1691), before being appointed Field Marshal (1708). A portrait of him by Hyacinthe Rigaud hangs in the Musée des Beaux-Arts de Caen.
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Source: Osbern
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Hyacinthe Rigaud
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Hyacinthe François Honoré Mathias Pierre André Jean Rigaud Hyacinthe Rigaud y Ros Hyacinthe Rigault | ||
| Description | French painter, professor, draughtsman and pastellist | ||
| Date of birth/death | 18 July 1659 / 1659 | 29 December 1743 | |
| Location of birth/death | Perpignan | Paris | |
| Work location | Perpignan (1669-1670), Lyon (1677-1681), Paris (1681-1743), Rome (1682), Perpignan (1695) | ||
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