The younger of two children, he was born to the Duke and
Duchess of Bouillon in 1728. He had an older sister,
Marie Louise (1725–1793) who later married the
Prince of Guéméné. Styled the
Prince of Turenne as the heir apparent to Bouillon, he married Princess
Louise Henriette Gabrielle de Lorraine on 27 November 1743. She was a member of the
house of Lorraine and a great grand daughter of
Henri, Count of Harcourt. The couple had four children in all before Louise Henriette Gabrielle died in 1788; three children pre-deceased them. The widower Duke married again in 1789 to Marie Françoise Henriette de Banastre (1775–1816), a girl who was some forty-seven years younger than he. No children were produced from the marriage. He served with distinction in the
Seven Years' War. In 1748 he was made a maréchal de camp. In 1747, he succeeded his father as
Grand chamberlain of France, a ceremonial position he would hold unitil 1775. He was elected to the
Royal Academy of Painting and Sculpture in 1777. In just three months, he squandered almost a million livres on his mistress, an opera singer, thus bringing his family to the verge of ruin. He died at the Château de Navarre on and was succeeded by his eldest son
Jacques, who was an invalid. Jacques was the last Duke of Bouillon, the title being abolished during the
French Revolution. The
Princes of Guéméné today claim the Duchy of Bouillon as their own due to the marriage of Marie Louise (his only sibling) and Jules de Rohan, Prince of Guéméné. He has no known descendants. ==Gallery==