Camille de Lorraine (Louis Camille; 18 December 1725 – 12 April 1780) was a French nobleman and Prince of Lorraine. He was known as the Prince of Marsan and, after the death of his father, was the Count of Marsan.
Early life and ancestry
Coat of Arms of Prince Camille de Lorraine, Prince and Count of Marsan
As a member of the House of Guise, a cadet branch of the House of Lorraine, he was a Foreign Prince in France and as such was given the style of Highness. He was the last male of the Lorraine Counts of Marsan.
He was the Prince of Puyguilhem, but never used the title.
Known simply as le prince Camille, he was styled as the Prince of Marsan, his older brother Gaston was the Count of Marsan. His brother died of smallpox in 1743 and the county of Marsan reverted to the family. Even after his father's death in 1755, Camille was still known as the prince de Marsan.
Biography
Marsan was created a knight of the Order of the Holy Spirit, the most prestigious decoration of the Ancien régime on 2 February 1756. His father had also been a knight of the order. From 1778, he was the owner of the Hôtel de Boisgelin in Paris. The Hôtel de Boisgelin (sometimes known as the Hôtel de La Rochefoucauld-Doudeauville) but in 1779 he sold the property to Marie de Boisgelin, Canoness of Remiremont who later gave it to her brother Jean de Dieu-Raymond de Cucé de Boisgelin.
He died at the Hôtel de Bouillon in Paris. The Hôtel was the Parisian residence of his brother in law the Duke of Bouillon. His sister died there some eight years later.
