See also: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 (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office in the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:household; and in 1654 was See also:ambassador extraordinary at the See also:election of Pope See also:Alexander VII
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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
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV. to the infanta Maria See also:Theresa
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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
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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
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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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