House of La Tour d'Auvergne
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The House of La Tour d'Auvergne was a French noble dynasty. Its senior branch, extinct in 1501, held two of the last large fiefs acquired by the French crown, the counties of Auvergne and Boulogne, fo
Family de Beaufort-Turenne in the 14th and 15th century.
Henri de la Tour (1555-1623), Marshal of France
Louis Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne, comte d'Évreux, builder of Élysée Palace. Portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud (ca. 1720), now in the Metropolitan Museum