François-Emmanuel de Crussol, 9th Duke of Uzès (1 January 1728 – 22 March 1802), was a French aristocrat, politician and soldier.
[1] His maternal grandparents were François de La Rochefoucauld, 4th Duke of La Rochefoucauld, and Charlotte Le Tellier (daughter of Louis XIV's Minister, François-Michel Le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois).
[4] Crussol took part in the Seven Years' War and was made maréchal de camp in 1761 and Lieutenant-General in 1780.
[6] He also inherited the Hôtel d'Uzès in Paris which, in 1767, he commissioned neo-classical architect Claude-Nicolas Ledoux to update.
[7] A supporter of the Royal family, he attended the funeral of King Louis XV in 1774 and was made Chevalier des Ordres du Roi by King Louis XVI in 1776.