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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 ...
A third essay, “The True Account of the Births of My Lords and Ladies the Children of France with the Noteworthy Particularities Thereof,” incorporates a dramatization of the birth of the future Louis XIII. The queen’s first pregnancy took place at a time when France was in desperate need of a direct male heir to the throne; the lack of ...
Claude de Rouvroy, 1st Duke of Saint-Simon (French pronunciation: [klod də ʁuvʁwa]; August 1607 – 3 May 1693), was a French soldier and courtier, and favourite of Louis XIII of France, who created his dukedom for him. His only son Louis de Rouvroy, Duke of Saint-Simon (1675–1755) was the famous memoirist of the court of Louis XIV.
Charles d'Albert, 1st Duke of Luynes (French: [ʃaʁl dalbɛʁ]; 5 August 1578 – 15 December 1621) was a French courtier and a favourite of Louis XIII.In 1619, the king made him Duke of Luynes and a Peer of France, and in 1621, Constable of France.
As the son of the marquis d'Effiat, a famous Superintendent of Finances who was also a good friend of Richelieu's, Cinq-Mars came to court very early.. In 1639, after the exile of the royal favourite Marie de Hautefort, Richelieu introduced the young Cinq-Mars to Louis, hoping he would find favour with the king, thus allowing Richelieu to exercise even greater control over the king.
Mathurine is noted in the registers of the court with the position Plaisante, [2] which was the title of female jesters of the court in 16th-century France, of which there were evidently several, such as Mademoiselle Sevin, the jester of the queen of Navarre. [3] Mathurine de Vallois is the most known of these female jesters.
Marie de' Medici confronts Cardinal Richelieu before Louis XIII.Illustration by Maurice Leloir (1901). Day of the Dupes (in French: la journée des Dupes) is the name given to a day in November 1630 on which the enemies of Cardinal Richelieu mistakenly believed that they had succeeded in persuading King Louis XIII of France to dismiss Richelieu from power. [1]
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 ...