Duke of Decazes
| Dukedom of Decazes | |
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| Creation date | 1820 |
| Created by | Louis XVIII of France |
| First holder | Élie Decazes |
| Present holder | Louis-Frédéric-René-Marie-Edouard Decazes, 6th Duke |
Duke of Decazes, also called Duke Decazes (French: duc Decazes), is a title of French nobility that was granted in 1820 to Élie Decazes,[1] a French statesman who served as Prime Minister of France from 19 November 1819 to 20 February 1820.[2] He had already been made a French count in 1816.[3] Separately, he was given the hereditary Danish title of Duke of Glücksborg upon his second marriage in 1818,[4] which title was recognized in France in 1822.
In 1826, he founded Houillères et Fonderies de l'Aveyron,[5] a mining and metal-working business in the Aveyron département that marked the beginning of industrialised metallurgy.[6] In 1829, the name of Decazeville was given to the principal centre of the industry.[7]
List of Dukes
[edit]- Élie Decazes, 1st Duke Decazes and of Glücksbierg (1780–1868), Prime Minister of France
- Louis-Charles-Élie-Amanien Decazes, 2nd Duke Decazes and of Glücksbierg (1819–86), French Foreign Minister
- Jean-Élie-Octave-Louis-Sévère-Amanien Decazes, 3rd Duke Decazes and of Glücksbierg (1864–1912), Olympic sailing competitor
- Louis-Jean-Victor-Sévère Decazes, 4th Duke Decazes and of Glücksbierg (1889–1941), businessman and owner of Haras d'Ouilly
- Élie Ludovic Henri Christian Decazes, 5th Duke Decazes and of Glücksbierg (1914–2011), President of the Polo de Paris from 1940 to 1950
- Louis-Frédéric-René-Marie-Edouard Decazes, 6th Duke Decazes and of Glücksbierg (b. 1946), wine producer
References
[edit]- ^ Hutchinson, Martin (1 January 2021). Britain's Greatest Prime Minister. BoD – Books on Demand. p. 257. ISBN 978-0-7188-9564-8. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ Price, Munro (10 December 2010). The Perilous Crown: France Between Revolutions, 1814-1848. Pan Macmillan. p. 12. ISBN 978-0-330-53937-1. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ Chateaubriand, François-René vicomte de (1902). The Memoirs of François René. Freemantle and Company. p. 9. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ Annuaire de la noblesse de France (in French). Bureau de la Publ. 1895. p. 140. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ Bulletin des lois de la Republique Francaise (in French). Impr. Nationale des Lois. 1827. p. 10. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ Bedel, Christian-Pierre (1 January 1991). La Sala: Boissa, Flanhac, Las Juniás, Livinhac, Sent-Antin, Sent-Partem (in French). FeniXX. p. 13. ISBN 978-2-307-49323-5. Retrieved 28 June 2025.
- ^ lettres, une Société de savants et de gens de (1885). La grande encyclopédie: inventaire raisonné des sciences, des lettres et des arts par une Société de savants et de gens de lettres (in French). Société anonyme de la Grande encyclopédie. p. 1051. Retrieved 28 June 2025.