Joseph Marie de Boufflers

Joseph Marie de Boufflers, 2nd Duke of Boufflers (22 May 1706 – 2 July 1747) was a French nobleman and senior military officer.

Early life Joseph Marie was the third, but only surviving, son of Louis-François de Boufflers and Catherine Charlotte de Gramont, daughter of Antoine Charles de Gramont, 3rd Duke of Gramont. His father was a marshal of France who was made a peer of France as Duke of Boufflers in 1708. He also assumed his father's positions as governor of Flanders and Hainut, Lille, and Beauvais. Later that year he accompanied the king to Alsace and during his stay in Metz as his aide-de-camp.

In the second half of the 1730s – and probably until the duke's death in 1747 – the Duke and the Duchesse of Boufflers rented the Hôtel Chanac de Pompadour and made it their residence in Paris. Depending on the source, the Duchess may have purchased the property after her husband's death in 1747.