Louis-Élisabeth De La Vergne De Tressan
Louis-Élisabeth de la Vergne, comte de Tressan (4 November 1705, Le Mans - 31 October 1783, from a fall from a carriage en route to Saint-Leu-la-Forêt) was a French soldier, physician, scientist, medievalist and writer, best known for his adaptations of " romans chevaleresques" of the Middle Ages, which contributed to the rise of the Troubadour style in the French arts. Biography Aged 13, he was the companion of the young Louis XV; he served as an enseigne in the 1st Scottish company of the Gardes du Corps sine 1735, being promoted to lieutenant in June 1743. He was with king as his aide de camp at the battle of Fontenoy and became General-lieutenant in 1748. He was made governor of Toul and was summoned by king Stanislas to his court at Lunéville, where he received the title of grand marshal. The first director of the Société Royale des Sciences et Belles-Lettres of Nancy in 1751 and a member of several other academies in France and abroad, he was elected a member of the ...
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Tressan
Tressan (; oc, Treçan) is a commune in the Hérault department in the Occitanie region in southern France France (), officially the French Republic ( ), is a country primarily located in Western Europe. It also comprises of Overseas France, overseas regions and territories in the Americas and the Atlantic Ocean, Atlantic, Pacific Ocean, Pac .... Population Notable people born in Tressac *Louis de La Vergne-Montenard de Tressan See also *Communes of the Hérault department References

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