What is Cardinal de Rohan?
[[File:Cardinal Rohan2.jpg|right|200px]] '''Louis René Édouard de Rohan''' known as '''Cardinal de Rohan''' (25 September 1734 – 16 February 1803), ''prince de Rohan-Guéméné'', was a French [[bishop of Strasbourg]], politician, [[Cardinal (Catholicism)|cardinal]] of the [[Roman Catholic Church]], and cadet of the [[Rohan (family)|Rohan]] family. His parents were [[Hercule Mériadec, Prince of Guéméné]] and Louise Gabrielle Julie de Rohan. He was born in [[Paris]]. Rohan was made Ambassador to [[Vienna]] in 1771. He arrived at Vienna in January 1772, and made a great party of himself. Because of this, Empress [[Maria Theresa]] and her daughter, [[Marie Antoinette]] did not like him.<ref>Madame Campan : Memoires sur la vie de Marie-Antoinette , Ed. Nelson</ref> He was a key figure of the [[Affair of the Diamond Necklace]]. In an attempt to get on Marie Antoinette's good side, he thought that [[Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy]] was a friend of the Queen, however not knowing that she lied to him, he was tricked into buying the diamond necklace and giving it to Jeanne.<ref>''The ''Britannica'' gives as references the ''Mémoires'' of his secretary, the abbé Georgel, of the [[Henriette Louise de Waldner de Freundstein|Baroness d'Oberkirch]], of [[Jacques Claude, comte de Beugnot|Beugnot]], and of [[Madame Campan]].''</ref> ==References== {{reflist}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Rohan, Louis Rene Edouard De}} [[Category:1734 births]] [[Category:1803 deaths]] [[Category:French cardinals]] [[Category:Ambassadors of France]] [[Category:Politicians from Paris]] {{bio-stub}}