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AUBIGNE, CONSTANT

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Originally appearing in Volume V02, Page 890 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUBIGNE, See also:CONSTANT D' [See also:BARON DE SURINEAU] (c. 1584-1647), See also:French adventurer, was the son of See also:Theodore See also:Agrippa d'Aubigne, and the See also:father of Madame de See also:Maintenon. See also:Born a See also:Protestant, he became by turns See also:Catholic or Protestant as it suited his interests. He betrayed the Protestants in 1626, revealing to the See also:court, after a voyage to See also:England, the projects of the See also:English upon La Rochelle. He was renounced by his father; then imprisoned by See also:Richelieu's orders at See also:Niort, where he was detained ten years. After having tried his fortunes in the See also:Antilles, he died in See also:Provence, leaving in destitution his wife, Jeanne de Cardillac, whom he had married in 1627. He had two See also:children, See also:Charles, father of the duchess of See also:Noailles, and Francoise, known in See also:history as Madame de Maintenon. See T. Lavallee, La Famille d'Aubigni et l'enfance de Madame de Maintenon (See also:Paris, 1863).

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