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Rohan Henri duke de Rohan Louis René Édouard prince de Chevreuse Marie de Rohan Montbazon duchess de Marie de Rohan Montbazon

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Henri duke de Rohan
born 1579, Château of Blain, Brittany, France died April 13, 1638, Königsfeld, Switz. French Huguenot leader. At age 16 he entered the army of Henry IV, who made him a peer of France in 1603. After Henry's death (1610), Rohan led the Huguenots in revolt against the government of Marie de Médicis (1615-16) and became the Huguenots' foremost general in the civil wars of the 1620s. He recounted the events of the War of La Rochelle (1627-29) in his celebrated Mémoires. He then went to Venice. After his return to France (1635), he successfully commanded a French expedition against the Habsburgs in Lombardy. In 1637 he went to Switzerland, where he died in the Thirty Years' War battle at Rheinfelden
Marie de Rohan-Montbazon duchess de Chevreuse
orig. Marie de Rohan-Montbazon known as Madame de Chevreuse born December 1600 died Aug. 12, 1679, Gagny, France French princess. She participated in several conspiracies against the ministerial government in Louis XIII's reign and the regency for Louis XIV. She was exiled several times for her activities, including participating in a plot against Cardinal de Richelieu, betraying state secrets to Spain, and plotting to assassinate Jules Mazarin
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