About Louis Deshayes
Lived 1600 – 1632. Louis Deshayes was a French diplomat.
Louis Deshayes, Baron de Courmemin (1600 – 12 October 1632), was a French diplomat.
Biography Advisor to Louis XIII, he was sent on several missions to the Levant, Denmark, Safavid Iran and the Tsardom of Russia.
Having joined a conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, he was arrested under the orders of his rival Hercules de Charnacé, at Mainz and beheaded at Béziers in 1632.
Works Voyage du Levant, fait par le commandement du roi en 1621, Paris, 1624 Voyages au Danemark, 1664.
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French diplomat
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Louis Deshayes was born in 1600.
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Louis Deshayes died on 16 October 1632 in Béziers.
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Louis Deshayes was a diplomat.
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Louis Deshayes was French.
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