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Image: Bourbon Legitime.svg|Henri de Bourbon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Verneuil''' (1663)</span>
Image: Bourbon Legitime.svg|Henri de Bourbon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Verneuil''' (1663)</span>
Image: François Annibal d'Estrées.svg|François Annibal d'Estrées<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Estrées''' (1663)</span>
Image: François Annibal d'Estrées.svg|François Annibal d'Estrées<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Estrées''' (1663)</span>
Image: ?|Antoine II de Gramont<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Gramont''' (1663)</span>
Image: Antoine II de Gramont.svg|Antoine II de Gramont<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Gramont''' (1663)</span>
Image: Harduin de La Porte.svg|Charles de La Porte<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of La Meilleraye''' (1663)</span>
Image: Harduin de La Porte.svg|Charles de La Porte<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of La Meilleraye''' (1663)</span>
Image: Azure a fasces or bound argent and with ax argent, on a fess gules three mullets or|Hortense Mancini<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duchess of Rethel-Mazarin''' (1663)</span>
Image: Azure a fasces or bound argent and with ax argent, on a fess gules three mullets or|Hortense Mancini<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duchess of Rethel-Mazarin''' (1663)</span>

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The Peerage of France consisted of the highest-ranking members of the French nobility. The original twelve peers were constituted in time immemorial.
Later peers were created by the King of France. The coats of arms shown below depict the arms of the peer when the peerage was granted.
Peers who changed arms are marked with an asterisk (*), followed by a reference to titles later or formerly borne.