Antoine de L'Age, duc de Puylaurens

Antoine de l'Age (or Laage ), duc de Puylaurens (1602 – July 1635) was a French courtier .

He was born to an old Languedoc family. Attached to the household of Gaston, Duke of Orleans , brother of Louis XIII , he gained a complete ascendancy over the weak prince by pandering to his pleasures, and became his adviser in the intrigues against Cardinal Richelieu . It was Puylaurens who arranged the escape of Gaston to Brussels in 1632 after the capture of Henri II de Montmorency , and then negotiated his return with Richelieu, on condition that he should be reconciled to the king. As a reward Richelieu gave him Aiguillon , erected into a duchy. But he plunged into new intrigues, and was imprisoned first in the Louvre in 1635, then in Vincennes , where he died the same year. ^[1]

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^ One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Puylaurens, Antoine de Laage, Duc de ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 675.

[EB1911-1] One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain : Chisholm, Hugh , ed. (1911). " Puylaurens, Antoine de Laage, Duc de ". Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 22 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 675.

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