Valentin-Ladislas, Comte d'Esterházy was a French soldier and aristocrat of Hungarian extraction. A career soldier, he became a close friend of the French queen Marie Antoinette, who showered him with favors at court. During the French Revolution, he followed Louis XVI's younger brothers, the Comte d'Artois and the Comte de Provence, into exile. In 1791, he was sent as the princes' ambassador to the court of Catherine the Great of Russia.
- Occupation
- military leader, politician
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- 1740, October 20, 1740, October 22, 1740
- Died
- July 23, 1805
