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BOIVIN, FRANCOIS DE

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 156 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOIVIN, See also:FRANCOIS DE , See also:Baron de See also:Villars (d. 1618), See also:French chronicler, entered the service of See also:Charles, See also:Marshal See also:Brissac, as secretary, and accompanied him to See also:Piedmont in 1550 when the marshal went to take command of the French troops in the See also:war with See also:Spain. Remaining in this service he was sent after the defeat of the French at St Quentin in 1557 to assure the French See also:king See also:Henry II. of the support of 'Brissac. He took See also:part in the negotiations which led to the treaty of Cateau-Cambresis in See also:April 1559, but was unable to prevent Henry II. from ceding the conquests made by Brissac. Boivin wrote Memoires sur See also:les guerres demelees taut clans le Piemont qu'au See also:Montferrat et duche de See also:Milan See also:par Charles de Cosse, See also:comte de Brissac (See also:Paris, 1607), which, in spite of some drawbacks, is valuable as the testimony of an See also:eye-See also:witness of the war. An edition, carefully revised, appears in the Memoires relatifs d l'histoire de See also:France, tome x., edited by J. F. See also:Michaud and J. J. F. Poujoulat (Paris, 1850). He also wrote Instruction sur les affaires d'etat (See also:Lyons, 161o).

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