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Louis XIII shared his mother's love of the lute, developed in her childhood in Florence. One of his first toys was a lute and his personal doctor, Jean Héroard, reports him playing it for his mother in 1604, at the age of three. [34] In 1635, Louis XIII composed the music, wrote the libretto and designed the costumes for the "Ballet de la ...
Jules Mazarin [a] (born Giulio Raimondo Mazzarino [b] or Mazarini; [5] 14 July 1602 – 9 March 1661), from 1641 known as Cardinal Mazarin, was an Italian Catholic prelate, diplomat and politician who served as the chief minister to the Kings of France Louis XIII and Louis XIV from 1642 to his death. He was made a cardinal in 1641.
Became royal midwife to French royal family and delivered the future Louis XIII and his five siblings. Bourgeois’s successful delivery of the future Louis XIII helped bring about peace and prosperity in the realm after many decades of dynastic and religious war. Known for being the first woman to write a printed medical text in France. Spouse(s)
Malebranche was born in Paris in 1638, the youngest child of Nicolas Malebranche, secretary to King Louis XIII of France, and Catherine de Lauzon, sister of Jean de Lauson, a Governor of New France. Because of a malformed spine, Malebranche received his elementary education from a private tutor.
Bouvard was himself a son of a physician from his native city [4] who taught him his profession in Bouvard's earliest childhood, yet died when Bouvard was still a small child leaving him an orphan [5] Recognising his skill, he was brought up by Marin Liberge, a professor at the famous university of Angers [6] which was to be his Alma mater and the place where he received his doctor title in 1604.
Although French poetry during the reign of Henri IV and Louis XIII was still largely inspired by the poets of the late Valois court, some of their excesses and poetic liberties found censure—especially in the work of François de Malherbe, who criticized La Pléiade's and Philippe Desportes's irregularities of meter or form (the suppression ...
The Peace of Alais, also known as the Edict of Alès or the Edict of Grace, was a treaty negotiated by Cardinal Richelieu with Huguenot leaders and signed by King Louis XIII of France on 28 June 1629.
Nicolas Caussin (1583– July 2, 1651) was a French Jesuit, orator; and for a time, confessor to King Louis XIII of France. His treatise, The Holy Court, a guide for courtiers in living a Christian life, was published in 1624. Caussin was removed from his position as royal confessor after only nine months and exiled to Quimper when his ...