Beauvilliers (surname)
# Beauvilliers (surname)

Beauvilliers (or Beauvillier) was the name of a very ancient French family belonging to the country around Chartres, members of which are found filling court offices from the 15th century onward.

Later, there were two ducs de Beauvilliers:

* François de Beauvilliers, 1st duc de Saint-Aignan (1610–1687)
* Paul de Beauvilliers, 2nd duc de Saint-Aignan (1648–1714), son of the former

Other members of the family included:

* Antoine Beauvilliers, pastry chef to the future Louis XVIII and proprietor of the Grande Taverne de Londres
* Paul-Hippolyte de Beauvilliers, duke of Saint-Aignan (1684–1776)
