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SANCY, See also:NICOLAS DE HARLAY, SEIGNEUR DE (1546-1629) , See also:French soldier and diplomatist, belonged to the See also:Protestant See also:branch of the See also:family of Harlay but adopted the See also:Catholic See also:religion in 1J72 during the massacres of the See also:Huguenots. In 1589 he obtained in See also:Geneva and Berne sums sufficient to raise an See also:army of mercenaries for See also:Henry III., partly by the See also:sale of jewels, among them the " Sancy " See also:diamond which in 1835 found its way to the See also:Russian imperial treasure, and partly by leading the Swiss to suppose that the troops were intended for serious See also:war against See also:Savoy. Henry IV. made him See also:superintendent of his finances in 1594, but in 1599 he was replaced by See also:Sully. Meanwhile he had been a second See also:time converted to Catholicism, but his See also:influence at See also:court waned, and he retired from public See also:life in 1605. He survived until the 13th of See also:October 1629, leaving a Discours sur l'occurrence See also:des affaires. His son, ACHILLE HARLAY DE SANCY, See also:bishop of See also:Saint Malo (1581-1646), was educated for the See also:church but resigned his vocation for the career of arms on the See also:death of his See also:elder See also:brother in 16o1. For seven years, from 1611 to 1618, he was See also:ambassador at the See also:Turkish court, where he amassed a See also:fortune of some £16,000 See also:sterling by doubtful means, and was bastinadoed by See also:order of the See also:sultan for his frauds. Harlay de Sancy was a learned See also:man and a See also:good linguist, who used his opportunities to acquire a valuable collection of See also:oriental See also:MSS., many of which are now in the Bibliotheque Nationale in See also:Paris. On his return to See also:France he joined the Oratorian Fathers, and when See also:Marshal See also:Bassompierre was sent to See also:England in 1627 to regulate the See also:differences between Henrietta Maria and her See also:husband, Harlay de Sancy was attached to the See also:queen's ecclesiastical See also:household, but See also:Charles I. secured his dismissal. He became bishop of St Malo in 1632, and died ^' the loth of See also:November 1646.

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