Aiguillon, Duke d', corrupt minister of France, previously under trial for official plunder of money, which was quashed, at the corrupt court of Louis XV., and the tool of Mme. Du Barry, with whom he rose and fell (1720‒1782).
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Aignan * Aikin, Dr. John