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CONSTANT AUBIGNE

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CONSTANT AUBIGNE  D' [BARON DE SURINEAU] (c . 1584-1647), French adventurer, was the son of Theodore Agrippa d'Aubigne, and the
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father of Madame de
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Maintenon . Born a
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Protestant, he became by turns Catholic or Protestant as it suited his interests . He betrayed the Protestants in 1626, revealing to the court, after a voyage to England, the projects of the
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English upon La Rochelle . He was renounced by his father; then imprisoned by Richelieu's orders at
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Niort, where he was detained ten years . After having tried his fortunes in the
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Antilles, he died in Provence, leaving in destitution his wife, Jeanne de Cardillac, whom he had married in 1627 . He had two children, Charles, father of the duchess of
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Noailles, and Francoise, known in
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history as Madame de Maintenon . See T . Lavallee, La Famille d'Aubigni et l'enfance de Madame de Maintenon (Paris, 1863) .

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