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CHARLES DE MARILLAC (c. 1510-1560)

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Originally appearing in Volume V17, Page 719 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES DE See also:MARILLAC (c. 1510-1560)  , See also:French See also:prelate and diplomatist, came of a See also:good See also:family of See also:Auvergne, and at the See also:age of twenty-two was See also:advocate at the See also:parlement of See also:Paris . Suspected, however, of sympathizing with the reformers, he deemed it prudent to leave Paris, and in 1535 went to the See also:East with his See also:cousin See also:Jean de la Foret, the first French See also:ambassador at See also:Constantinople . Cunning and ambitious, he soon made his See also:mark, and his cousin having died during his See also:embassy, See also:Marillac was appointed his successor . He did not return from the East until 1538, when he was sent almost immediately to See also:England, where he remained ambassador until 1543 . He retained his See also:influence during the reign of See also:Henry II., fulfilling important See also:missions in See also:Switzerland and at the imperial See also:court (1547-1551), and at the courts of the See also:German princes (1553-1554) . In 1555 he was one of the French deputies at the conferences held at Mark near See also:Ardres to discuss See also:peace with England . His two last missions were at See also:Rome (1557) and at the See also:Diet of See also:Augsburg (1559) . In 1550 he was given the bishopric of See also:Vannes, and in 1557 the archbishopric of See also:Vienne; he also became a member of the privy See also:council . He distinguished himself as a statesman at the See also:Assembly of Notables at See also:Fontainebleau in 1560, when he delivered an exceedingly brilliant discourse, in which he opposed the policy of violence and demanded a See also:national council and the assembly of the states See also:general . Irritated by his opposition, the Guises compelled him to leave the court, and he died on the 2nd of See also:December of the same See also:year . His See also:works include: Discours sur la roupture de la Trefve en l'an 1556 (Paris, 1556), and " Sommaire de 1'ambassade en Allemagne de See also:feu Mr. l'archevesque de Vienne en See also:Pan 1550," published in See also:Ranke's Deutsche Geschichte See also:im Zeitalter der See also:Reformation, vol. vi . (See also:Leipzig, 1882) .

See J . Kaulek, Correspondance politique de Castilian et Marillac (1537—1542) (Paris, 1885); P. de Vassiere, See also:

Charles de Marillac (Paris, 1896) .

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