ABSTRACT

Augustus de Choiseul, fourth son of Cesar Duc de Choiseul, became by the death of his elder brothers (and of a son which one of them had left) Duc de Choiseul. When France was treating of peace with the Duke of Savoy, the Duke de Choiseul was sent to Savoy as one of the hostages for its ratification; his journey thither took place in September 1696, and he returned to Paris in January 1697. The Dutchess de Choiseul died of a rapid decline, in 1698, at the age of thirty-three; the Duke married a second wife, by whom he had no children; and died in 1704, at the age of sixty-eight. The Duke de la Valliére, in his defence, said, that the person calling herself Augustina-Frances de Choiseul must establish by authentic proofs her claim to that name, and to her title of heiress of the Duke de Choiseul.