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Polignac may refer to:
- Maison de Polignac, a French noble family, including a list of its members
- Duke of Polignac, a title created in 1780 for the Polignac family
- Polignac (card game), a French card game for four players
Polignac (a.k.a. Jeux des Valets), the version of Knaves, is a French 18th century trick-taking card game ancestral to Hearts and Black Maria. It is played by 3-6 players with a 32-card deck. It is sometimes played as a party game with the 52-card pack, however, it is better as a serious game for four, playing all against all. Other names for this game include Quatre Valets and Stay Away, being the German Slobberhannes, also called Slippery Jack, one its reminiscents.
Usage examples of "polignac".
Armand de Polignac made the above affecting appeal in favour of his brother.
When, for instance, the Duc wearied of the lovely Madame de Polignac, this lady was so inflamed by hatred of her successor in his affections, the Marquise de Nesle, that she challenged her to a duel to the death in the Bois de Boulogne.
When Madame de Polignac, after a fierce exchange of shots, saw her rival stretched at her feet, she turned furiously on the wounded woman.
Queen of France if Madame de Polignac had been content to remain in her rustic obscurity, and had never crossed her path.
When Yolande Gabrielle de Polastron was led to the altar, one day in the year 1767, by Comte Jules de Polignac, she never dreamt, we may be sure, of the dazzling role she was destined to play at the Court of France.
France only one man of note, that Cardinal de Polignac, accomplished scholar, courtier, and man of affairs, who was able to twist Louis XIV.
For a great portion of the debts had been incurred for some diamond ear-rings which the queen herself did not wish for, and had only bought to gratify Madame de Polignac, who had promised her custom to the jeweler who had them for sale.
Madame de Polignac was most unpopular with all classes, and that her unpopularity was not undeserved.
Madame de Guimenee with pleasure, much of her joy seemed to be owing to the opportunity which it afforded her of promoting the new duchess to the vacant place, while Madame de Polignac had even the address to persuade her that she accepted the post unwillingly, and, in undertaking it, was making a sacrifice to loyalty and friendship.
She invited him to the palace, and, when he arrived, she caused Madame de Polignac to bring both her children into the room.
But Madame de Polignac and her party persuaded her majesty to acquiesce in the appointment of M.
The Duchess de Polignac was drinking the waters at Bath, which at that time was a favorite resort of French valetudinarians, and, while she was still in that most beautiful of English cities, the queen kept up an occasional correspondence with her.
Duchess de Polignac was to the multitude, she insisted on her departing with her family.
Vienna, while the others, such as those, addressed by the Queen, to Madame de Polignac, etc.
His last, most recal-citrant minister was a Polignac from perhaps the most universally hated aristocratic clan of the 1780s.