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| Hercule de Rohan Duc de Montbazon @Wikipedia |
Lieutenant of the King in Normandy
Governor of Picardy
Peer of France.
Son of: Pierre de Rohan, Prince de Guemenee & Eleanore de Rohan.
Husband of:
1. Madeleine de Lenoncourt (d.1628), daughter of Henri de Lenoncourt & Françoise de Laval, mar 1594.
"Born of this house, with centuries of unbroken lineage behind him, Hercule de Rohan, Duke de Montbazon, was worthy of his race and name. He was a handsome swaggering giant of a man who faced the world with head flung back and a 'you-be-damned' air that proved irresistible to the opposite sex. The haughty head was not over-burdened with brains, and Hercule was credited with having 'the morals of a horse-trooper,' but he had a few shining virtues. He spoke the truth at any cost, feared neither man nor devil and was absolutely unwaveringly loyal to his chosen cause." (The Intriguing Duchess, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse: 16)
His lover was:
Louise Roger.
" . . . When Marie was two years old her mother died, leaving several lovers to mourn her untimely decease. Hercule had no time to devote to the care of two small children. The King needed him in Paris and he departed, leaving them to the tender mercies of a succession of governesses. The nominal head of the household was Hercule's mistress, Louise Roger, who was said to have been a notorious prostitute in Tours." (The Intriguing Duchess, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse: 17)
2. Marie d'Avaugour (1610-1657), mar 1628.
1. Madeleine de Lenoncourt (d.1628), daughter of Henri de Lenoncourt & Françoise de Laval, mar 1594.
"Born of this house, with centuries of unbroken lineage behind him, Hercule de Rohan, Duke de Montbazon, was worthy of his race and name. He was a handsome swaggering giant of a man who faced the world with head flung back and a 'you-be-damned' air that proved irresistible to the opposite sex. The haughty head was not over-burdened with brains, and Hercule was credited with having 'the morals of a horse-trooper,' but he had a few shining virtues. He spoke the truth at any cost, feared neither man nor devil and was absolutely unwaveringly loyal to his chosen cause." (The Intriguing Duchess, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse: 16)
His lover was:
Louise Roger.
" . . . When Marie was two years old her mother died, leaving several lovers to mourn her untimely decease. Hercule had no time to devote to the care of two small children. The King needed him in Paris and he departed, leaving them to the tender mercies of a succession of governesses. The nominal head of the household was Hercule's mistress, Louise Roger, who was said to have been a notorious prostitute in Tours." (The Intriguing Duchess, Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse: 17)
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| Marie d'Avaugour |
"Hercule's first wife Madeleine had died in 1628. The same year he married again to Marie de Bretagne d'Avaugour, daughter of Claude de Bretagne, Count of Vertus and Catherine Fouquet de La Varenne. His second wife was hailed as one of the most beautiful and most notorious women of her time. Hercule and Marie had three children, of whom two, François and Anne, would have progeny. François founded the Soubise line of the Rohan's and married his cousin Anne de Rohan-Chabot (later mistress of Louis XIV) and Anne, his youngest child married Louis Charles d'Albert de Luynes, her nephew by her older sister Marie." (Wikiwand)
"She was the second wife of Hercule de Rohan, Duc de Montbazon, peer and Grand Hunts of France, Governor and Lieutenant-General of the king in the town of Paris and Ile de France, faithfully attached to the person of King Henry III, for whom he served valiantly against the League. Hercule de Rohan, covered with wounds and honours, died at the age of eighty-six in his Touraine house. He had contracted a second marriage with this adorable Marie de Bretagne, daughter of Claude de Bretagne, comte de Vertus, and Catherine Fouquet de la Varenne, whose beauty became legendary, and whose death, in 1657----she was forty-five years of age---set all the spindles of all the chronicles a-rattle. People have often confused Marie de Bretagne, Duchess de Montbazon, with Marie de Rohan, Duchesse de Chevreuse by her second marriage. In reality Marie de Rohan, the pretty rascal, as Tallemant, calls her, was born of Duke Hercule's first marriage; so the Duchesse de Chevreuse is the step-daughter of the Duchess de Montbazon. Even if they are simplified we risk going astray amid these genealogies. And in the course of his long life, an active man in every way, Duke Hercule, worthy of his name, did his best to complicate his own biography ." (Pictures & Legends from Normandy & Brittany: 147)
Marie d'Avaugour's love life.
" . . . She did not lack lovers. The first, if gossips can be credited, was the Duc de Chevreuse, husband of her step-daughter. All this sounds like mere tittle-tattle. At this same period, old Duc Hercule, with his eighty years, was falling in love with the daughter of his porter at Rochefort. And here is something that will complicated our researches: the Duc de Saint-Simon was also accused of having had a finger in the pie: a ribald song attests it. The Duchesse was kind to Monsieur d'Orleans and to M. le Comte, who had first loved her second step-daughter, the Princesse de Guemenee (What a loveable family!). Bassompierre [Francois de Bassompierre (1579-1646), Marshal of France, wit, courtier and writer of memoirs] paid court to her, so did Hocquincourt [Charles de Monchy, Marquis de Hocquincourt (1599-1658). Tallemant asserts that she stripped Rouville of some of his feathers and Bonnelle-Bullion also. A hundred tales were current about her and the queen encouraged them. Her amours and intrigues with Monsieur de Beaufort were notorious. Scandalous stories were told of her proceedings." (Pictures & Legends from Normandy & Brittany: 149)
Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rance
Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rance
Lover in 1650.
"Of the life of Armand-Jean Le Bouthillier de Rance, we say little. He was born in Paris on January 9, 1626, and died at La Trappe on October 27, 1700, at the age of seventy-four. As a young man he had studied at the University of Paris, had enjoyed the life of an intelligent, witty, and good-looking man about town, and had frequented the fashionable salons, where he made the acquaintance of Marie d'Avaugour de Bretagne, duchesse de Montbazon, a beautiful, statuesque, and wholly immoral woman at least fourteen years older than he, who became his mistress. He was, it seems, deeply in love with her, and when she died unexpectedly from either measles or scarlet fever in April 1657, he was utterly devastated. Exactly what happened immediately after her death---whether Rance accidentally stumbled upon her autopsied body, as has been reported---is not something we need to consider here. Suffice it to say that the duchess's death was the final straw that led Rance to forsake the world he knew so well and to withdraw to the silent solitude of the dilapidated abbey of La Trappe in what were then the wilds of Normandy, a house of which he had been commendatory abbot from you youth. He took the monastic habit at Perseigne on June 13, 1663, endured a shattering year's novitiate, and entered La Trappe as its regular abbot on July 14, 1664. It would be his home for the next thirty-six years and the real driving force behind the rise of the Cistercian Strict Observance." (A Saint in the Sun: Praising Saint Bernard in the France of Louis XIV: 147)
Son of: Louise de Rohan-Chabot, 4th Duc de Rohan & Marie-Elisabeth du Bec-Crespin.
Husband of: Francoise de Roquelaure.
His lover was:
Florence Pellegrin.
" . . . D'Argenson faced a more complicated situation when the Prince de Leon, the oldest son of the duke de Rohan-Chabot, became infatuated with a very attractive dancer in the Paris Opera, Mlle Florence Pellerin. The young prince and this woman were an inseparable pair in Paris and often visited the prince's estates in Bretagne. When the duke Rohan-Chabot petitioned the king that family honor demanded the arrest of the dancer, Louis agreed. D'Argenson took the precaution of arresting Mlle Pellerin while her lover was absent from Paris because the young prince had a wide reputation for being a hothead. . . ." (A Lust for Virtue: Louis XIV's Attack on Sin in the Seventeenth Century: 136)
Prince de Soubise 1749
Duc de Rohan-Rohan
Prince d'Epinoy 1715
Comte de Saint-Pol
Seigneur de Roberval
Husband of:
His lovers were:
French ballerina, opera singer and courtesan
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| Marie-Madeleine Guimard, 1840 @ BNF |
2) Marie-Madeleine Guimard 1743-1816)
French ballerina.
Lover in 1784.
Daughter of: Fabien Guimart & Anne Bernard.
". . . Another of Charles de Rohan's lovers was rumoured to be the young dancer of fifteen years, Mademoiselle Zacharie, who was a pupil of Mademoiselle Guimard. Perhaps his behaviour was inherited from his father who was a notorious for his sexual exploits." (Brain: 12)
". . . (I)n 1768 we find her the mistress- - -or rather one of the mistresses---of the Marechal Prince de Soubise, whom the favour of Madame de Pompadour promoted to the command of the French troops so disastrously defeated in the Battle of Rossbach. . . The prince was generosity itself. He made Mlle. Guimard a monthly allowance of 2000 ecus, surrounded her with every luxury that the heart of woman could desire, and loaded her with costly gifts. . . . " (Williams: 111)
"Funds are also said to have been provided by another lover of Mlle Guimard, the Prince de Soubise, a member of the distinguished Rohan family, which in the person of the Cardinal de Rohan was later to bring dishonour to Queen Marie Antoinette over the affair of the diamond necklace. Soubise was a courtier cast in the same mould as his friend, the Duc de Richelieu: 'His frenetic taste for women [whom] his age placed him beyond the ability to please had thrown him into a scandalous way of life. The girls of the opera formed his court, and, on the other hand, there was a Madame de l'Hospital, his official mistress [who was] deeply engaged in gambling. But nevertheless everyone had a kind of deference for him, inspired by his birth, and his status, and also the position he held in the [royal] Council.' Not only Soubise, but also his son-in-law, the Prince de Guemenee, supported the dancer, and when Guemenee's famous bankruptcy occurred in 1786 she was forced to sell the house, which she put on the market in a characteristically piquant way, as a lottery." (The Architecture of the French Enlightenment: 173)
"I have not space to describe Mdlle. Guimard's private theatre, nor to speak of her liaison with the Prince de Soubise, nor of her elopement with a German prince, whom the Prince de Soubise pursued, wounding him, and killing three of his servants, nor of her ultimate marriage with a humble 'professor of graces' at the Conservatory of Paris. . . ." (Madeleine Guimard: 20)
His lover was:
1) Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Remy.
2) Pauline von Hohenzollern-Hechingen.
"Marie von Steinach, the daughter of Prince Louis de Rohan-Guemene and Fürstin Pauline von Hohenzollern-Hechingen was conceived when the Fürstin was married to Fürst Friedrich Herman von Hohenzollern-Hechingen." (von Ehrenberg, 2001, January 1)
Personal & Family Background: He was the son of Hercule Meridiac, Prince de Guemene, and of Louise-Gabrielle Julie de Rohan.
Achievements & Honours: Prince de Rohan-Guemene, Cardinal de Rohan, Bishop of Strasbourg, French Ambassador to Vienna, Grand Almoner of France. [Ref1:466] [Ref2]
" . . . Meanwhile, her husband had fallen in love with one of Marie Antoinette's circle, the lovely Therese Lucy de Dillon, Comtesse de Dillon, who was mother to the future Madame de la Tour du Pin. Sadly, Therese Lucy was to die in 1782 at the age of thirty leaving all who knew her devastated and shortly afterwards the Prince de Guemenee declared himself bankrupt, with debts of over 33 million livres. It was to be an enormous scandal. . . ." (Madame Guillotine)
His lover was:
Therese-Lucy de Dillon
Comtesse de Dillon.
(1751-1782).
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| Arthur Dillon |
Wife of: General Arthur Dillon (1750-1794), mar 1768
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| Anne de Rohan @Wikipedia |
(1606-1685)
Wife of Louis VIII de Rohan-Guéméné, mar 1619
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| François de Montmorency-Bouteville @Wikipedia |
Her lovers were:
1. François de Montmorency-Bouteville (1600-1627)
Comte de Luxe 1616 & Governor of Senlis
"Her first “man” was an impetuous “dare-devil” , Comte Montmorency Bouteville . He got beheaded in 1627, due to a duel he instigated inside of the Place Royale “quarre” – by now our parking place."(Grand Coesre's Secret)
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"Third lover of princesse Guemene was the enigmatic Comte Soissons, another folks hero, originated from the Bourbon – Conde family branch. Throughout his life he had contested to his elder brother the prestigious title of “premier prince de sang” , which would have had entitled him to direct throne succession after the death of “childless” king Louis XIII. That Soissons pleaded – in full public – being the carnal father of princesse Guemene`s second son." (Grand Coesre's Secret)
3. François-Auguste de Thou (d.1642).
"Madame Guemene’s last well-known lover was a revoluzzer again, a disreputable rabble-rouser of people — Auguste de Thou was his name. He, too, got executed in the year 1642, because of his participation in the conspiracy of Cinq Mars, a former favorite of Louis XIII." (Grand Coesre's Secret)
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"The second lover she choose was the cousin of Bouteville, the, famous Duc Henri II Montmorency, god-son of Henry IV, first king of France issued by the Capet-Bourban-dynasty. Montmorency was considered to be the most popular among all army leaders during the reign of Louis XIII, Montmorency was a rival to prime minister Richelieu, who instigated his beheading at at Toulouse anno1632." (Grand Coesre's Secret)
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