Name Eleonor du | ||
Leonor Marie du Maine (14 September 1655, Changy - 15 January 1739, Strasbourg), count of Le Bourg, baron of Espinasse was a French nobleman and general.
Life
He was made a page in the grande Ecurie du roi in 1671, before joining the musketeers in 1673. He then moved to the Gardes Francaises. He fought his first campaigns in Franche-Comte, distinguishing himself in the 1674 attack on Besancon. He also took part in the sieges of Conde, Bouchain (Nord), Valenciennes, Saint-Omer, Ypres, Kehl, and Strasbourg.
He became mestre de camp of the Regiment Royal Cavalerie in December 1701 and was made governor of the province of Alsace in 1713. In 1724 he was made a Marshal of France. His first wife's name is unknown — he married his second in Strasbourg on 14 January 1729, namely Marie Anne de Klinglin, elder sister of Francois-Joseph de Klinglin, "preteur royal" of Strasbourg, and of Christophe de Klinglin, first president of the Conseil souverain d'Alsace.