Louis Deshayes
Louis Deshayes, Baron de Courmemin (1600 – 12 October 1632) was a French diplomat.
Biography
[edit]Advisor to Louis XIII,[1] 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[2] and beheaded at Béziers in 1632.
Works
[edit]- Voyage du Levant, fait par le commandement du roi en 1621, Paris, 1624
- Voyages au Danemark, 1664.
Notes and references
[edit]- ^ Dezobry and Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, t.1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p. 781
- ^ Louis Deshayes de Courmenin et l' Muslim East (1621-1626)
Bibliography
[edit]- Pierre Margry, Une ambassade des Français en Russie sous Louis XIII (1629), dans Revue maritime et coloniale, juillet 1861, p. 213-241 (lire en ligne -, erratum)
