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PUYLAURENS, ANTOINE DE LAAGE

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

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