Noailles
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Noailles is the name of several communes in France:
Noailles is also the name of a French noble family:
Noailles was also the name of three 16th century French diplomatic brothers;
- Noailles, CorrèzeNoailles, CorrèzeNoailles is a commune in the Corrèze department in central France.-Population:...
, in the Corrèze département - Noailles, OiseNoailles, OiseNoailles is a town in northern France. It is designated municipally as a commune within the département of Oise. Noailles is the center of the Canton of Noailles....
, in the Oise département - Noailles, TarnNoailles, TarnNoailles, Tarn is a commune in the Tarn department in southern France.-Geography:The village lies in the middle of the commune, on the right bank of the Vère, which flows southwestward through the commune....
, in the Tarn département - Noailles, a neighborhood of Marseilles and its metro station
Noailles is also the name of a French noble family:
- Duke of NoaillesDuke of NoaillesThe title of Duke of Noailles was a French peerage created in 1663 for Anne of Noailles, count of Ayen.The second, third and fourth dukes were all marshals of France...
Noailles was also the name of three 16th century French diplomatic brothers;
- Antoine de Noailles, Sieur de Noailles
- François de NoaillesFrançois de NoaillesFrançois de Noailles, Papal Prothonotary, made Bishop of Dax in 1556, was French ambassador in Venice in the 1560s, and French ambassador of Charles IX to the Ottoman Empire from 1571 to 1575....
- Gilles de NoaillesGilles de NoaillesGilles de Noailles, abbé de l'Isle was French Ambassador to the Ottoman Empire from 1575 to 1579. He was the brother of his predecessor as ambassador, François de Noailles, and was succeeded by Jacques de Germigny...
(d. 1600)