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HUGUES DE LIONNE (1611-1671)

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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 739 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HUGUES DE See also:LIONNE (1611-1671)  , See also:French statesman, was See also:born at See also:Grenoble on the rrth of See also:October 1611, of an old See also:family of See also:Dauphine . See also:Early trained for See also:diplomacy, his remarkable abilities attracted the See also:notice of See also:Cardinal See also:Mazarin, who sent him as secretary of the French See also:embassy to the See also:congress of See also:Munster, and, in 1642, on a See also:mission to the See also:pope . In 1646 he became secretary to the See also:queen See also:regent; in 1653 obtained high See also:office in the See also:king's See also:household; and in 1654 was See also:ambassador extraordinary at the See also:election of Pope See also:Alexander VII . He was instrumental in forming the See also:league of the See also:Rhine, by which See also:Austria was cut off from the See also:Spanish See also:Netherlands, and, as See also:minister of See also:state, was associated with Mazarin in the See also:Peace of the See also:Pyrenees (1659), which secured the See also:marriage of See also:Louis XIV. to the infanta Maria See also:Theresa . At the cardinal's dying See also:request he was appointed his successor in See also:foreign affairs, and, for the next ten years, continued to See also:direct French foreign policy . Among his most important See also:diplomatic successes were the treaty of See also:Breda (1667), the treaty of See also:Aix-la-Chapelle (1668) and the See also:sale of See also:Dunkirk . He died in See also:Paris on the 1st of See also:September 1671, leaving See also:memoirs . He was a See also:man of See also:pleasure, but his natural indolence gave See also:place to an unflagging See also:energy when the occasion demanded it; and, in an See also:age of See also:great ministers, his consummate statesmanship placed him in the front See also:rank . See Ulysse See also:Chevalier, Lettres inediles de See also:Hugues de See also:Lionne . . . precedees dune notice historique sur la famille de Lionne (See also:Valence, 1879) ; J . Valfrey, La diplomatie francaise au X VIII, siecle: Hugues de Lionne, ses ambassadeurs (2 vols., Paris, 1877-1881) . For further See also:works see Rochas, Biogr. du Dauphine (Paris, 1860), tome ii. p .

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