He was the son of Françoise Charlotte d'Aubigné, niece of Madame de Maintenon, and a nephew of Marie Victoire de Noailles, daughter-in-law of Louis XIV of France.

[2] He served in most of the wars of the eighteenth century without particular distinction but was nevertheless made a Marshal of France in 1775.

He refused to emigrate during the Revolution but escaped the guillotine by dying in August 1793.

Another granddaughter, Adrienne, wife of Gilbert du Motier, marquis de La Fayette, was saved due to the efforts of James Monroe, then America's Minister to France.

[3] Adrienne and her husband are buried with the Noailles and the other nobles who fell to the guillotine at Picpus Cemetery.