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ANTOINE DE LAAGE PUYLAURENS

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Originally appearing in Volume V22, Page 675 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANTOINE DE LAAGE PUYLAURENS  , Dix DE (d . 1635), French courtier, was born of an old
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Languedoc
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family . Attached to the household of Gaston, duke of Orleans,
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brother of Louis YIII., he gained a
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complete ascendancy over the weak prince by pandering to his pleasures, and became his adviser in the intrigues against Cardinal Richelieu . It was Puylaurens who arranged the escape of Gaston to Brussels in 1632 after the capture of
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Henri, duc de Montmorency, and then negotiated his return with Richelieu, on condition that he should be reconciled to the king . As a
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reward Richelieu gave him Aiguillon, erected into a duchy . But he plunged into new intrigues, and was imprisoned first in the Louvre in 1635, then in
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Vincennes, where he died the same
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year .

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