In 1787, Pierre-Marc-Gaston de Lévis inherited a dukedom. He was only 23, the beneficiary of a noble title created as a reward to his father, a Marshal of France who commanded troops on both sides of the Atlantic. But the elevation of the young de Lévis, also a soldier, was not to last.
Three years later, as the regime of King Louis XVI was being dismant…
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