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Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac
1778Jun, 20

Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac

Jean Baptiste Gay, vicomte de Martignac, French politician, 7th Prime Minister of France (d. 1832)
Jean-Baptiste Sylvère Gay, 1st Viscount of Martignac (20 June 1778 – 3 April 1832) was a moderate royalist French statesman during the Bourbon Restoration 1814–30 under King Charles X.

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