Louis_Deshayes

Louis Deshayes

Louis Deshayes

French diplomat

Louis Deshayes, Baron de Courmemin, born in 1600 and died on 12 October 12, 1632, was a French diplomat.

Biography

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

  • Voyage du Levant, fait par le commandement du roi en 1621, Paris, 1624
  • Voyages au Danemark, 1664.

Notes and references

  1. [1]
    Dezobry and Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, t.1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p. 781
  2. [2]
    Louis Deshayes de Courmenin et l' Muslim East (1621-1626)

Bibliography

  • 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)
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