Jean Le Laboureur (1621 – June 26, 1675) was a French courtier, Roman Catholic clergyman and historian.

Early life

Jean Le Labourer was born in 1621 in Montmorency, Val-d'Oise, France. His paternal uncle,

Claude Le Laboureur Claude Le Laboureur (1601–1680s) was a French Roman Catholic clergyman and historian. Early life Claude Le Laboureur was born in 1601. Career Le Laboureur was the provost of the Abbey of Île Barbe on the Île Barbe in Lyon. Le Laboureur was ...

, was the provost of the

Abbey of Île Barbe The Abbey of Île Barbe was an Abbey built very early in the Christian era, on Île Barbe, outside of Lyon, France. The abbey was founded on the island in the 5th century and was the first monastic establishment in the Lyon region and one of the ...

on the

Île Barbe The Île Barbe is an island situated in the middle of the Saône, in the 9th arrondissement de Lyon, the quartier Saint-Rambert-l'Île-Barbe (a former-commune annexed in 1963). Its name comes from the Latin ''insula barbara'', "Barbarians' Islan ...

Lyon Lyon,, ; Occitan: ''Lion'', hist. ''Lionés'' also spelled in English as Lyons, is the third-largest city and second-largest metropolitan area of France. It is located at the confluence of the rivers Rhône and Saône, to the northwest of t ...

and a book collector. His brother, Louis Le Laboureur, was a poet. Le Laboureur was educated at the

Couvent des Célestins The Couvent des Célestins (In English: ''Convent of the Celestines''), was an ancient convent located near the Place de la Bastille in Paris, France, active between 1254 and 1790. It was the second most important burial site for royalty after th ...

Paris Paris () is the capital and most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. S ...

Career

Le Laboureur was a courtier. In 1644, he assisted

Jean-Baptiste Budes, Comte de Guébriant Jean-Baptiste Budes, comte de Guébriant (1602 – 17 November 1643) was marshal of France. Life He was born at Plessis-Budes, near St Brieuc, in a Breton family. He served as a soldier first in the Netherlands, and in the Thirty Years' War he ...

in his trip to

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe. It is divided into 16 administrative provinces called voivodeships, covering an area of . Poland has a population of over 38 million and is the fifth-most populous ...

, where they took Marie Louise Gonzaga before her marriage to Władysław IV Vasa. A travel book about the trip authored by Le Laboureur was published posthumously, in 1697. Le Laboureur served as a

prior Prior (or prioress) is an ecclesiastical title for a superior in some religious orders. The word is derived from the Latin for "earlier" or "first". Its earlier generic usage referred to any monastic superior. In abbeys, a prior would be l ...

in Juvigné and

Mayenne Mayenne () is a landlocked department in northwest France named after the river Mayenne. Mayenne is part of the administrative region of Pays de la Loire and is surrounded by the departments of Manche, Orne, Sarthe, Maine-et-Loire, and Ille-et ...

. He later served as chaplain and librarian to King

Louis XIV of France , house = Bourbon , father = Louis XIII , mother = Anne of Austria , birth_date = , birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France , death_date = , death_place = Palace of Versa ...

. Additionally, he was the author of many books on French history. Le Labourer was a Knight of the

Order of Saint Michael , status = Abolished by decree of Louis XVI on 20 June 1790Reestablished by Louis XVIII on 16 November 1816Abolished in 1830 after the July RevolutionRecognised as a dynastic order of chivalry by the ICOC , founder = Louis XI of France , hig ...

Death

Le Laboureur died on 26 June 1675 in Montmorency, France.

Bibliography

*''Tombeau des personnes illustres dont les sépultures sont à l'église des Célestins de Paris'' (1641). *''Relation du voyage de la Reine de Pologne, et du retour de Madame la Maréchale de Guébriant, ambassadrice extraordinaire'' (1647). *''Histoire du Comte de Guébriant, Maréchal de France'' (1656). *''Les Mémoires de Michel de Castelnau, Seigneur de Mauvissiere, contenant les choses remarquables qu'il a vues et négociées en France, en Angleterre, en Écosse sous les rois François II et Charles IX, depuis l'an 1559. jusqu'à l'août 1570 (1659). *''Histoire de Charles VI, roi de France, écrite par les ordres et sur les mémoires et les avis de Guy de Monceaux et de Philippes de Villette, abbés de Saint-Denis, par un auteur contemporain, religieux de leur abbaye ..traduite sur le manuscrit latin tiré de la bibliothèque de M. le président de Thou ..illustrée de plusieurs commentaires tirés de tous les originaux de ce règne .., traduction française et commentaire'' (1663). *''Tableaux généalogiques des seize quartiers de nos rois depuis Saint Louis jusqu'à présent'' (1683). *''Discours de l'Origine des armoiries'' (1684).

References

1621 births 1675 deaths People from Val-d'Oise French courtiers 17th-century French Roman Catholic priests 17th-century French historians 17th-century French writers 17th-century male writers Court of Louis XIV {{France-historian-stub