Famous People with Name Laval

Pierre Laval            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Pierre Laval: was a French politician. He was four times President of the council of ministers of the Third Republic, twice consecutively. Following France's Armistice with Germany in 1940, he served twice in the Vichy Regime as head of government, signing orders permitting the deportation of foreign Jews from French soil to the death camps. After Liberation (1945), he was arrested, found guilty of high treason, and executed by firing squad. The controversy surrounding his political activities has generated a dozen biographies.

Anne Pierre Adrien De Montmorency, Duc De Laval            Origin/Culture/Country: French

Anne Pierre Adrien De Montmorency, Duc De Laval: was a French foreign Minister. He was the son of Mary Anne Alexandre Sulpice Joseph de Laval-Montmorency and his wife, Marie-Louise de Montmorency-Luxembourg (1750–1829). A second son, Adrien de Laval was originally intended for the priesthood. His elder brother was the Marquis de Laval. Adrian was raised in Metz, in the care of his uncle Louis-Joseph, Prince-Bishop, Grand Almoner of France, cardinal. Later, Adrian was sent to the Seminary of St. Sulpice in Paris, he left the seminary after the death of his elder brother, to enter the chasseurs of the Vicomte de Noailles, where in the regiment were Charles Arthur Tristan Languedoc de Noailles, and Voyer d'Argenson, brother of the Marquis de Laval.