Henri François d'Aguesseau was Chancellor of France three times between 1717 and 1750 and pronounced by Voltaire to be "the most learned magistrate France ever possessed".

Henriette Anne Louise d'Aguesseau, Duchess of Noailles, Princess of Tingry, was a French salon hostess and duchess, the heiress of her grandfather, Henri François d'Aguesseau, and wife of Jean Louis François de Noailles, Count and Duke of Ayen.