Jean, Count of Gassion (1609 Pau - 1647 Lens) was a redoutable Gascon military commander for France, prominent at the battle of Rocroi (1643), who reached the rank of Marshal of France at the age of thirty-four. Pau is a town and ''commune'' in the Aquitaine ''région'' of Lens is a commune in northern France, in the Pas-de-Calais département. Gascon (Gascon; French,) is a dialect of the Occitan language. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. The Battle of Rocroi, fought on May 19 1643, resulted in a decisive victory of the French army under the Duc d'Enghien, against the The Marshal of France (Maréchal de France and pl Maréchaux de France is a military distinction in contemporary France, not a Military rank. He served Louis XIII and Louis XIV and died of wounds at the siege of Lens. For the cognac see Louis XIII de Rémy Martin. Louis XIII ( September 27, 1601 – May 14, 1643) Early years Birth and ancestry Louis XIV was born in the Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye on September 5 1638 and bore the Heir apparent
Cardinal Richelieu called him la Guerre ("War") and commandeered his services which had proved valuable to Gustavus Adolphus, one of the renovators of new cavalry tactics in the West. This article is about a cardinal For information on the Russian also called The Red Eminence, see Mikhail Andreyevich Suslov. For the other Swedish kings known as Gustavus Adolphus see Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden or Gustav VI Adolf of Sweden It was a stroke of good fortune, for, several days after the death of Louis XIII, under the young duc d'Enghien, Louis II de Bourbon, the Grand Condé, Gassion was a crucial factor in the French success at Rocroi against combined Habsburg forces, a role gracefully acknowledged by Condé. Louis II de Bourbon Prince de Condé ( 8 September, 1621 – 11 November, 1686) was a French general and the most famous representative
Contemporary references (from French Wikipedia)
- Du Prat, La vie du maréchal de Gassion (BN 5768). Du Prat was a Huguenot minister and Gassion's almoner.
- Du Prat, Le portrait du mareschal de Gassion
- Abbé Michel de Pure, Histoire du maréchal de Gassion (Paris 1673, Amsterdam 1696)
- Théophraste Renaudot, La Vie et la mort du maréchal de Gassion, (1647)
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