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Louis-Henri | |
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| Count of Brienne | |
 Engraving of Louis-Henri | |
| Full name | Louis-Henri de Loménie de Brienne |
| Born | 13 January 1636 Paris, France |
| Died | 17 April 1698 (aged 62) La Courneuve, France |
| Noble family | Loménie |
| Father | Henri-Auguste de Loménie, comte de Brienne (1594–1666) |
| Mother | Louise de Béon (1602–1665) |
Louis-Henri de Loménie de Brienne, (13 January 1636 – 17 April 1698), Count of Brienne, was a French politician, chronicler, poet, and collector of art works and books.
Biography
editFrom the Loménie family (originating in Flavignac in Limousin), he was the son of...
He was a childhood playmate of Louis XIV.[1]
He became Foreign Secretery (Secrétaire d'État des Affaires Ètrangères), assisting his father from 24 August 1651 to 14 April 1663, and was also made State Counsellor (Conseiller d’État) on 12 September 1651.[2][3]
From 1652 to 1657, he was tutored by François Blondel,[4] who accompanied him during his tour of Europe in 1652-1655. [More details about Blondel and the European trip available from Gerbino, Rothschild and Bonnafé.][5][6][7]
On 15 January 1656, he married the daughter of the Comte de Chavigny, Henriette de Bouthillier de Chavigny (1637-1664), a friend of the Princess de Condé.[8] They had three children, a boy and two daughters:[9][10]
- Anne Marie Thérèse (1657-1680);
- (André?) Louis Henri (c. 1658-1743);
- Louise Madeleine (1658-1739).
In June 1660, he attended Louis XIV's wedding in Fontarabia.[11]
On 14 April 1663, he resigned his position.[2][12][11]
After the death of his wife, he retired at Les Pères de l’Oratoire from 24 January 1664 to 12 June 1670,[12] but was expelled after falling in love with ??? He goes to Germany and becomes infatuated with the Princess of Mecklenburg, who complains about it to Louis XIV. Summoned back to Paris, he is locked away in two successive benedictine abbeys.[11]
On 27 January 1674, he was committed by a lettre de cachet to an insane asylum, the Abbey of Saint-Lazare, until his release in 1692.[11]
Between 1692 and 1696, ... ?
In 1696, he retires to the abbey of Saint-Séverin at Château-Landon, where he dies on 17 April 1698.[11]
Biographies
edit- The best bio is Michaud![13]
- Very detailed review of his memoirs by Ferdinand Rothschild![14]
- More bio material, from Perrault & Beaurain, here:[15]
- Another brief bio:[16]
Collections
edit- He was a great collector of art, mentioned in an MMA exhibition catalogue.[17]
- Details of his own catalogue:[18]
Works
edit- de Loménie de Brienne, Louis-Henri (1828). Barrière, François (ed.). Mémoires inédits de Louis-Henri de Loménie de Brienne, 2 vol (hardcover) (in French). Paris: Ponthieu.
References
editCitations
edit- ^ a b Diderot & D'Alembert 1804, p. 528.
- ^ Rothschild 1888, p. 689.
- ^ Sturdy 1995, p. 173.
- ^ Gerbino 2013, pp. 22–23.
- ^ Rothschild 1888, p. 688.
- ^ Bonnafé 1873, p. 5.
- ^ Chateaubriand Index 'B'.
- ^ D. L. C. D. B 1757, p. 361.
- ^ Henriette Bouthillier.
- ^ a b c d e Michaud 1843, p. 57.
- ^ a b Rothschild 1888, p. 698.
- ^ Michaud 1843, pp. 57–58.
- ^ Rothschild 1888, pp. 686–702.
- ^ Perrault, Perrault & Beaurain 2001, pp. 107–108.
- ^ Cooper 1890, p. 806.
- ^ Rosenberg, Wyndham & Fumaroli 1982, pp. 321–322.
- ^ Bonnafé 1873, pp. 19–26.
Sources
editBooks
edit- Alcouffe, Alain; Massot-Bordenave, Philippe (2020). Adam Smith in Toulouse and Occitania: The Unknown Years (hardcover) (1st ed.). London: Palgrave Macmillan. pp. 73–74. ISBN 978-3-0304-6577-3 – via google.co.uk.
- Bonnafé, Edmond, ed. (1873) [1662]. Le catalogue de Brienne (hardcover) (in French). Paris: Auguste Aubry.
- Cooper, Thompson (1890). "LOMÉNIE, Henri Louis, de, count de Brienne". Biographical Dictionary (softcover). Vol. II. London: George Bell & Sons. p. 806 – via google..co.uk.
- D. L. C. D. B. (1757). Dictionnaire généalogique, héraldique, chronologique et historique (hardcover) (in French). Paris: Duchesne. p. 361.
- Diderot, Denis; D'Alembert, Jean-Baptiste le Rond, eds. (1804) [1st pub. 1788]. "Table chronologique des secrétaires d'état depuis 1547". Histoire. Supplément. Encyclopédie Méthodique, Ou Par Ordre De Matières (hardcover) (in French). Vol. VI / #25. Paris: Agasse. p. 528 – via books.google.fr.
- Gerbino, Anthony (2013). François Blondel: Architecture, Erudition, and the Scientific Revolution (softcover) (1st ed.). Abingdon-on-Thames: Routledge. pp. 22–23. ISBN 978-0-415-84781-0 – via google.co.uk.
- Michaud, Louis Gabriel; Desplaces, Ernest, eds. (1843) [1834]. "LOMÉNIE, Louis-Henri". Biographie universelle, ancienne et moderne, ouvrage rédigé par une société de gens de lettres (hardcover) (in French). Vol. 25 (2nd Revised ed.). Paris: C. Desplaces. pp. 57–58 – via google..co.uk.
- Noone, John (1988). The Man behind the Mask (hardcover). Gloucester: Alan Sutton. ISBN 978-0-86299-475-4.
- Perrault, Charles; Perrault, Claude; Beaurain, Mr. (2001) [1653]. "E. LOUIS-HENRI DE LOMÉNIE DE BRIENNE". In Saupé, Yvette (ed.). Les murs de Troye ou l'origine du burlesque (softcover) (in French). Vol. 1. Tübingen: Gunter Narr. pp. 107–108 – via google.co.uk.
- Rosenberg, Pierre; Wyndham Pope-Hennessy, Sir John; Fumaroli, Marc, eds. (1982). "102. The Judgment of Paris". France in the Golden Age — Seventeenth-century French Paintings in American Collections (softcover). New York, NY: Metropolitan Museum of Art. pp. 321–322. ISBN 978-0-87099-295-7 – via google..co.uk.
- Rothschild, Ferdinand (1888). Knowles, James (ed.). "The Memoirs of the Comte de Brienne". The Nineteenth Century (softcover). XXIV (July–December). London: Henry S. King & Company: 686–702.
- Sturdy, David J. (1995). "Nicolas François Blondel (1618-1686)". Science and Social Status: The Members of the Academie Des Sciences 1666-1750 (hardcover). Boydell & Brewer. pp. 171–176. ISBN 978-0-851153957 – via google.co.uk.
Websites
edit- "Henriette Bouthillier". histoireeurope.fr (in French). Histoire de l'Europe et de la Méditerranée.
- "François de Chateaubriand, Mémoires d'Outre-Tombe". poetryintranslation.com (in French). Poetry in Translation. At: B. Brienne, Henriette Bouthillier, Madame de.
She was a friend of the Princess de Condé
Further reading
edit- Bluche, François; Le Glay, Marcel (1990). "Louis-Henri de Loménie de Brienne". Dictionnaire du Grand Siècle (softcover) (in French). Paris: Fayard. ISBN 978-2-2130-2425-7.
- Hénin, Emmanuelle (19 September 2000). "Le cabinet de Loménie de Brienne : une poétique de la curiosité". XVIIe siècle (softcover) (in French) (No 208). Paris: Presses Universitaires de France: 409–446. ISBN 978-2-1305-0652-2.
External links
edit- Full text of "Memoires de Louis-Henri de Lomenie, comte de Brienne, dit le jeune Brienne" at the Internet Archive
- Commentary on his memoirs Full text of "Memoires de Louis-Henri de Lomenie, comte de Brienne, dit le jeune Brienne" at the Internet Archive