WYves d'Alègre. He was the fifth head of the Alègre family, and marquis of Tourzel as well as seigneur of Montaigu, of Saint-Flour-le-Châtel, of Aurouze and of Aubusson and count of Flaugeac.
WPierre de Montesquiou, comte d'Artagnan and later comte de Montesquiou was a French soldier and Marshal of France.
WJean Bart was a French naval commander and privateer.
WBernardin Gigault, Marquis de Bellefonds (1630–1694) was a French nobleman, soldier and courtier of the 17th century, who was appointed Marshal of France in 1668 and held a number of senior positions in the personal household of Louis XIV.
WLouis François de Boufflers, Duke of Boufflers was a French soldier. He was created count of Cagny and duke of Boufflers and named marshal of France.
WNicolas Catinat was a French military commander and Marshal of France under Louis XIV. The son of a magistrate, Catinat was born in Paris on 1 September 1637. He entered the Gardes Françaises at an early age and distinguished himself at the Siege of Lille in 1667.
WNicolas Chalon du Blé, marquis d'Uxelles and Cormatin was a French general and Foreign Minister. He was also created a knight and Marshal of France by Louis XIV, and was a diplomat for Louis XIV and Philippe II, Duke of Orléans.
WNoël Bouton, Marquis de Chamilly was a French military commander of the 17th and 18th centuries. He was named a Marshal of France in 1703.
WCharles de Montsaulnin, Comte de Montal (1619–1696) was a 17th-century French military officer and noble who was a close friend of Le Grand Condé, and fought in many of the wars of Louis XIV of France.
WAlain-Emmanuel de Coëtlogon was a Marshal of France during the reign of Louis XIV and Louis XV.
WLouis de Crévant, Marquis then later duc d'Humières (1628–1694) was a French nobleman of the 17th century, who became a Marshal of France in 1668 and Grand Master of Artillery in 1685.
WJacques Henri de Durfort, Duke of Duras was Marshal of France.
WVictor-Marie d'Estrées, Duke of Estrées count then duke (1723) of Estrées was a Marshal of France and subsequently known as the "Maréchal d'Estrées".
WHenri de Massue, 2nd Marquis de Ruvigny, Earl of Galway, was a French Huguenot soldier and diplomat who was influential in the English service in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
WJacques Eléonor Rouxel de Grancey, Comte de Médavy was a French military officer and Marshal of France who fought in the Nine Years' War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
WJoseph-François Hertel de la Fresnière was a military officer of New France. Born in Trois-Rivières when it was a small frontier town to Jacques Hertel, Lord Hertel and Marie Marguerie, he grew up with the constant threat of military action against the Iroquois. Captured by the Iroquois in 1661, he was adopted by an old Iroquois woman, and spent as long as two years among them, learning their language and ways. He managed to escape and make his way home, where his family had thought him dead.
WJean-Baptiste Hertel de Rouville was a colonial military officer of New France in the French Marines in Canada. He is best known in North America for leading the raid on Deerfield, in western Province of Massachusetts Bay, against English settlers on 29 February 1704 during Queen Anne's War.
WLouis d'Aubusson de la Feuillade, duc de Roannais was a French military officer and courtier who fought in the Nine Years War and the War of the Spanish Succession.
WGuy Aldonce de Durfort, duc de Lorges, Marshal of France, (1630–1702) fought in the Franco-Dutch War mostly on the Rhine under his uncle Marshal Turenne, but in 1673 he was seconded to the Siege of Maastricht. Back on the Rhine he fought at Entzheim in 1674, at Turckheim in January 1675, and at Sasbach in July 1675, where Turenne fell. He distinguished himself at the retreat from Sasbach and the ensuing Battle of Altenheim.
WLouis XIV, also known as Louis the Great or the Sun King, was King of France from 14 May 1643 until his death in 1715. His reign of 72 years and 110 days is the longest recorded of any monarch of a sovereign country in history. Louis XIV's France was emblematic of the age of absolutism in Europe. The King surrounded himself with a variety of significant political, military, and cultural figures, such as Mazarin, Colbert, Louvois, the Grand Condé, Turenne, Vauban, Boulle, Molière, Racine, Boileau, La Fontaine, Lully, Charpentier, Marais, Le Brun, Rigaud, Bossuet, Le Vau, Mansart, Charles Perrault, Claude Perrault, and Le Nôtre.
WFrançois Henri de Montmorency-Bouteville, Duke of Piney-Luxembourg, commonly known as Luxembourg, and nicknamed "The Upholsterer of Notre-Dame", was a French general and Marshal of France. A comrade and successor of the Great Condé, he was one of the most accomplished military commanders of the early modern period and is particularly noted for his exploits in the Franco-Dutch War and War of the Grand Alliance. Not imposing physically, as he was a slight man and hunchbacked, Luxembourg was nonetheless one of France's greatest generals. He never lost a battle in which he held command.
WMarie Magdelaine Mouron, also known as Picard and La Garonne, was a French soldier. She served in the French army disguised as a male from 1690 until 1696. She served under the Duke of Noailles in Catalonia and participated in the Siege of Rosas in 1693. Her biological gender was exposed after she was forced to seek medical attention after a duel with a fellow soldier. In March 1696, she was arrested accused of desertion, during which her story was documented.
WFerdinand, comte de Marsin was a French general and diplomat, who was Marshal of France.
WJacques Testard de Montigny (1663–1737) was an officer in the French Marines in Canada.
WJustin McCarthy, Viscount Mountcashel, PC (Ire), was a Jacobite general in the Williamite War in Ireland and a personal friend of James II. He commanded Irish Army troops during the conflict, enjoying initial success when he seized Bandon in County Cork in 1689. However, he was defeated and captured at the Battle of Newtownbutler later in the same year. He escaped and was accused of having broken parole. After the end of the war, he led an Irish Brigade overseas for service in the French Army. He died in French exile.
WAnne Jules de Noailles, 2nd Duke of Noailles was one of the chief generals of France towards the end of the reign of Louis XIV, and, after raising the regiment of Noailles in 1689, he commanded in Spain during both the War of the Grand Alliance and the War of the Spanish Succession, and was made marshal of France in 1693.
WPhilippe Pastour de Costebelle was a naval officer and Governor of Newfoundland and then Louisbourg. He was born in Languedoc and died in Louisbourg.
WBernard Desjean, Baron de Pointis was a French admiral and privateer.
WFrançois-Louis Rousselet, marquis de Châteaurenault was a French vice-admiral, maréchal, and nobleman.
WCamille d'Hostun de la Baume, duc de Tallard was a French noble, diplomat and military commander, who became Marshal of France.
WRené de Froulay, Comte de Tessé was a French soldier and diplomat during the reign of Louis XIV and the 1715-1723 Regency.
WAnne-Hilarion de Costentin, Comte de Tourville was a French naval commander who served under King Louis XIV. He was made Marshal of France in 1693.
WSébastien Le Prestre de Vauban, Seigneur de Vauban, later Marquis de Vauban, commonly referred to as Vauban, was a French military engineer who worked under Louis XIV. He is generally considered the greatest engineer of his time, and one of the most important in Western military history.
WLouis Joseph de Bourbon, Duke of Vendôme, often simply called Vendôme was a French general and Marshal of France. One of the great generals of his era, he was one of Louis XIV's most successful commanders in the War of the Grand Alliance and War of the Spanish Succession.
WClaude Louis Hector de Villars, Prince de Martigues, Marquis then Duc de Villars, Vicomte de Melun was a French military commander and an illustrious general of Louis XIV of France. He was one of only six Marshals to have been promoted Marshal General of France.
WFrançois de Neufville, (2nd) Duke of Villeroy was a French soldier.