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Artus Gouffier de Boissy (6 September 1475 – 13 May 1519 in

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) was a French nobleman and politician. He was duke of Roannez and

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, count of Étampes, count of

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, baron of Passavant, of

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, of Roanne, of la Mothe-Saint-Romain, of Bourg-Charente and of Saint-Loup, lord of Oiron, of

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, of Valence and of Cazamajor. He served as

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and attempted to negotiate a lasting peace between France and the

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at the time of his early death.

Life

The eldest son of Guillaume Gouffier de Boisy,

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, and of Philippine de Montmorency, he began his court career as a page to Charles VIII, who his father had served as preceptor. He accompanied Charles on the conquest of the

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in 1495, as well as accompanying

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to Italy.

Life

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