Marc Marie, Marquis de Bombelles

Marc Marie, Marquis de Bombelles (8 October 1744 – 5 March 1822) was a French diplomat and ecclesiastic.

He was a son of Henri François de Bombelles, tutor and guardian of the duke of Orleans.

In 1765 he entered the diplomatic service, and after several diplomatic missions became ambassador of France to Portugal in 1786, being charged to win over that country to the Family Compact, but the madness of the queen and then the death of the king prevented his success.

He was transferred to Vienna early in 1789, but the French Revolution cut short his diplomatic career, and he was deprived of his post in September 1790.

[1] In 1804, after the death of his wife, he withdrew to the monastery of Brünn in Austria, and became a priest, vicar of Oberglogau near Neustadt, Prussian Silesia.