Louis Deshayes, Baron de
Courmemin, born in 1600 and died on 12 October 12, 1632, was a French diplomat.
Biography
Advisor to
Louis XIII
Louis XIII (; sometimes called the Just; 27 September 1601 – 14 May 1643) was King of France from 1610 until his death in 1643 and King of Navarre (as Louis II) from 1610 to 1620, when the crown of Navarre was merged with the French crown ...
, he was sent on several missions to the
Levant
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,
Denmark
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,
Safavid Iran
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and the
Tsardom of Russia
The Tsardom of Russia or Tsardom of Rus' also externally referenced as the Tsardom of Muscovy, was the centralized Russian state from the assumption of the title of Tsar by Ivan IV in 1547 until the foundation of the Russian Empire by Peter I i ...
.
Having joined a conspiracy against
Cardinal Richelieu
Armand Jean du Plessis, Duke of Richelieu (; 9 September 1585 – 4 December 1642), known as Cardinal Richelieu, was a French clergyman and statesman. He was also known as ''l'Éminence rouge'', or "the Red Eminence", a term derived from the ...
, he was arrested under the orders of his rival
Hercules de Charnacé, at
Mainz
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Mainz is on the left bank of the Rhine, opposite to the place that the Main (river), Main joins the Rhine. Downstream of the confluence, the Rhine flows to the north-we ...
Louis Deshayes de Courmenin et l' Muslim East (1621-1626)
/ref> and beheaded at Béziers
Béziers (; oc, Besièrs) is a Subprefectures in France, subprefecture of the Hérault Departments of France, department in the Occitania (administrative region), Occitanie Regions of France, region of Southern France. Every August Béziers hos ...
in 1632.
Works
* ''Voyage du Levant, fait par le commandement du roi en 1621'', Paris
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, 1624
* ''Voyages au Danemark'', 1664.
Notes and references
Bibliography
* Pierre Margry, ''Une ambassade des Français en Russie sous Louis XIII (1629)'', dans ''Revue maritime et coloniale'', juillet 1861,
(''lire en ligne'' -''erratum'')
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French diplomats
Ambassadors of France to Sweden
1600 births
1632 deaths