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Image: La Baume Le Blanc.svg|Charles François de La Vallière<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of La Valliere''' (1723)</span>
Image: La Baume Le Blanc.svg|Charles François de La Vallière<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of La Valliere''' (1723)</span>
Image: Bourbon Conti.svg|Louis François de Bourbon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Mercoeur''' (1723)</span>
Image: Bourbon Conti.svg|Louis François de Bourbon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Mercoeur''' (1723)</span>
Image: Rosset de Rocozels: Quarterly 1 argent a bouquet of three roses gules, stalked and leaved vert (Rosset); 2 gules, a lion or (Lasset); 3 quarterly argent and sable (Vissec de Latude); 4 Azure three rooks or (Rocozel). Inescutcheon azure three roses or (Fleury)|Jean Hercule de Rosset de Rocozels<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Fleury''' (1736)</span>
Image: ?|Jean Hercule de Rosset de Rocozels<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Fleury''' (1736)</span>
Image: Chatillon.svg|Alexis de Châtillon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Chatillon''' (1736)</span>
Image: Chatillon.svg|Alexis de Châtillon<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Chatillon''' (1736)</span>
Image: ?|Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Gisors''' (1742)</span>
Image: ?|Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet<br><span style="font-size:88%; line-height: 1.3em;">'''Duke of Gisors''' (1742)</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.