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CHARLES DE MONTAUSIER

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Originally appearing in Volume V18, Page 761 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHARLES DE MONTAUSIER  SAINTE-MAURE, Duc DE (1610-169o), French soldier, was born on the 6th of
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October 161o, being the second son of Leon de Sainte-Maure, baron de Montausier . His parents were
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Huguenots, and he was educated at the
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Protestant College of
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Sedan under
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Pierre du Moulin . He served brilliantly at the siege of Casale in 163o . Becoming
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marquis de Montausier by the
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death of his elder
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brother in 1635, he was the recognized aspirant for the hand of Mme de Rambouillet's daughter Julie Lucine d'Angennes (1607-1671) . Having served under Bernard of Saxe-
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Weimar in Germany in 1634 he returned to the French service in 1636, and fought in the Rhenish
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campaigns of the following years . He was taken prisoner at Rantzau in November 1643, and only ransomed after ten months' captivity . On his return to France he became a
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lieutenant-general .

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