Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard de Saint-Priest, 1st Duke of Almazán

Emmanuel Louis Marie Guignard, vicomte de Saint-Priest, 1st Duke of Almazán, GE (1789, Paris – February 26, 1881), was a French politician and diplomat during the Bourbon Restoration.

During the Bourbon Restoration, he was attached to the service of King Louis XVIII of France's nephew, Louis-Antoine, Duc d'Angoulême, and during the Hundred Days tried to rouse the Dauphiné region in favor of the royal cause.

When the July Revolution in 1830 compelled his retirement, the Spanish king Ferdinand VII in recognition of his services made him a grandee of Spain, with the title of Duke of Almazán.

[1] He then joined the circle of former King Charles X's widowed daughter-in-law, Caroline Ferdinande Louise, duchesse de Berry, at Naples, and arranged her escapade in Provence in 1832.

Having arranged for an asylum in Austria for the duchess, he returned to Paris, where he was one of the leaders of Legitimist society until his death, which occurred at Saint-Priest, near Lyon.