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{{Short description|French noble}}
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| birth_name   = Charles Philippe d'Albert de Luynes
| birth_date   = {{birthdate|1695|07|30|df=yes}}
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| death_date   = {{dda|1758|11|02|1685|07|30|df=yes}}
| death_place  = [[Château de Dampierre]]
| father       = [[Honore Charles d'Albert]]
| mother       = Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli
| spouse       = {{marriage|Louise-Léontine de Bourbon<br>|24 February 1710|1721|reason=died}}<br>{{marriage|[[Marie Brulart]]<br>|1732|1758|reason=died}}
| issue        = [[Marie Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes]]
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'''Charles Philippe d'Albert, 4th [[ Duke of Luynes]]''' (30 July 1695 &ndash; 2 November 1758) held the title [[Dukes of Luynes|Duke of Luynes]] from 1712 to 1758. He wrote an important [[memoir]] of life at the court of [[Louis XV]].
==Early life==
Charles-Philippe was a grandson of [[Charles Honoré d'Albert, duc de Luynes]] the [[Duke of Chevreuse]]. He was a great-great-grandson of the first Duke of Luynes, [[Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes|Charles d'Albert]], and his wife [[Marie de Rohan]], one of the leading members of the [[Fronde]]. His grandmother Jeanne-Marie Colbert was a daughter of the famous [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert]], Louis XIV's minister of finance.<ref name="Luynes1865"/>
His great-aunt was [[Jeanne Baptiste d'Albert de Luynes]], the mistress of [[Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia]]. A second cousin was [[Maria Vittoria Francesca of Savoy]] who lived in France and was the wife of [[Victor Amadeus I, Prince of Carignan]].<ref name="Luynes1865"/>
==Career==
[[File:Carte topographique des environs de Maestricht et de Bilsen avec une partie de ceux de Tongres et Faucquemont (L E Demarne, 1748), dédicace.jpg|thumb|Dedication to the Duke of Luynes after the [[Siege of Maastricht (1748)]]]]
Luynes was a [[Peer of France]] and cavalry officer. He was part of the intimate group that she called her "gentlefolk" (''honnêtes gens''). He wrote a journal of historic events and facts about the court, a work which has no pretension of literary merit, but is valuable as a document for the study of the aristocratic society of his time.<ref name="Vapereau1876">[[Gustave Vapereau]], ''Dictionnaire universel des littératures'', Paris, Hachette, 1876, p.&nbsp;1286.</ref>
==Personal life==
He was twice married. His first marriage took place on 24 February 1710 to Louise-Léontine de Bourbon (1696–1721), ''Princess of Neuchatel'', a granddaughter of [[Louis, Count of Soissons|Louis de Bourbon, Count of Soissons]], and [[Anne de Montafié, Countess of Clermont-en-Beauvaisis]] (heiress of [[Jeanne-Françoise de Coeme, Lady of Lucé and Bonnétable]]). Before her death in 1721, they were the parents of:<ref name="Luynes1865"/>
* [[Marie Charles Louis d'Albert de Luynes]] (1717–1771), who married Thérèse Pélagie d'Albert in 1735. After her death, he married Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli.<ref name="Luynes1865"/>
In 1732, Charles-Philippe married [[Marie Brulart]]; she was the widow of the marquis de Charost, and became lady-in-waiting to the Queen [[Maria Leszczyńska]], the consort of King [[Louis XV of France]].<ref name="Luynes1865"/>
He died at the [[Château de Dampierre]] and was buried at the [[Église Saint-Sulpice, Paris]].<ref name="Luynes1865"/>
===Descendants===
Through his son Marie Charles, he was a grandfather of [[Louis Joseph Charles Amable d'Albert de Luynes]], Duke of Luynes (1748–1807), who had an active military and political career like his father.<ref name="Luynes1865">{{cite book |title=Mémoires du duc de Luynes sur la cour de Louis XV (1735–1758) |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_2wsKAAAAIAAJ |year=1860–1865 |location=Paris |publisher=Firmin-Didot frères |editor1=Louis Dussieux |editor2=Eudoxe Soulié}}</ref>
==Ancestry==
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|1= 1. '''Charles Philippe d'Albert, 4th Duke of Luynes'''
|2= 2. [[Honoré Charles d'Albert de Luynes]]
|3= 3. [[Marie Anne Jeanne de Courcillon]]
|4= 4. [[Charles Honoré d'Albert de Luynes]]
|5= 5. [[Jeanne Marie Colbert]]
|6= 6. [[Philippe de Courcillon]], Marquis of Angeau
|7= 7. Anne Françoise Morin
|8= 8. [[Louis Charles d'Albert de Luynes]]
|9= 9. Louise Marie Seguier, Marquise  of O
|10= 10. [[Jean Baptiste Colbert]]
|11= 11. Marie Charron
|12= 12. Louis de Courcillon, Seigneur of Dangeau
|13= 13. Charlotte des Noues
|16= 16. [[Charles d'Albert, duc de Luynes|Charles d'Albert, Duke of Luynes]]
|17= 17. [[Marie de Rohan]]
|18= 18. Pierre III Seguier
|19= 19. Marguerite de La Guesle
|20= 20. Nicolas Colbert, Seigneur of Vendières
|21= 21. Marie Pussort
|22= 22. Jacques Charron, Seigneur of Nozieux & Menars
|23= 23. Marie Begon
|24= 24. Jacques de Courcillon, Seigneur of Dangeau
|25= 25. Suzanne Baudrais
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==References==
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