Louis-Joseph-Charles-Amable d'Albert de Luynes

Louis Joseph Charles Amable d'Albert, 6th Duke of Luynes (4 November 1748 – 13 May 1807) was a French politician, nobleman and member of the House of Albert. He was the sixth Duke of Luynes as well as Duke of Chevreuse.

Early life

Luynes was born in Paris on 4 November 1748. He was the son of Charles Louis d'Albert, 5th Duke of Luynes (1717–1771) and Henriette Nicole d'Egmont-Pignatelli (1719–1782). His elder siblings were Charles Marie Léopold d'Albert, Count of Dunois, and Marie Paule Angélique d'Albert (who married their cousin Louis Joseph d'Albert d'Ailly, 7th Duke of Chaulnes).

Career In 1768, his father transferred the title, Duke of Chevreuse, to Louis Joseph. Three years later in 1771 upon his father's death, he succeeded as the 6th Duke of Luynes as his elder brother, Charles, died unmarried in 1758. After the Revolution, he was also a member of the Sénat conservateur (Conservative Senate) who were in service during the First French Empire (the French empire which was ruled by Napoleon Bonaparte). Charles Marie d'Albert de Luynes (1783–1839), 7th Duke of Luynes, who married Françoise Ermessinde de Narbonne-Pelet, a daughter of Count Francois-Bernard de Narbonne de Pelet and Adelaide Le Conte de Nonant de Pierrecourt.

The Duke died in Paris on 13 May 1807 was buried at the Panthéon de Paris. Upon his death in 1807, he was succeeded in the dukedom of Luynes by his son, Charles. His widow died in 1830 at the Château d'Esclimont.

Through his son Charles, he was a grandfather of Honoré Théodoric d'Albert de Luynes (1802–1867), who married Marie Françoise Dauvet de Maineville (a daughter of Gabriel Nicolas Dauvet, Marquis de Maineville).