Théodore-Agrippa d'Aubigné ( February 8 is the 39th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ...February 8, Events April _ War between Henry II of France and Emperor Charles V. Henry invades Lorraine and captures Toul, Metz, and Verdun. ...1552 – April 29 is the 119th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (120th in leap years). ...April 29, Events February 22 _ Native American Quadequine introduces Popcorn to English colonists. ...1630) was a France _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...French Poets are authors of poems. ...poet, A Norwegian soldier (a Corporal, armed with an MP_5) A soldier is a person who has enlisted with, or has been conscripted into, the armed forces of a sovereign country and has undergone training and received equipment to defend that country or its interests. ...soldier, This article is about the type of communication. ...propagandist and Generally a chronicle (Latin chronica) is historical account of facts and events in chronological order. ...chronicler. His epic poem Les Tragiques (1916), is widely regarded as a French Baroque masterpiece.

Life

Born Pons in the present day Charente_Maritime is a département on the west coast of France named after the Charente River. ...Charente_Maritime, Aubigné studied in The Eiffel Tower has become the symbol of Paris throughout the world. ...Paris, This article is about Orléans, France; for other meanings see Orleans (disambiguation). ...Orléans, Coat of arms of the Canton of Geneva Coat of arms of the City of Geneva Geneva (French: Genève, German: Genf, Italian: Ginevra, Romansh Genevra, Spanish: Ginebra) is the second_most populous city in Switzerland (after Zurich), located where Lake Geneva (French: Lac de Genève or Lac L...Geneva and This article is about the French city. ...Lyon before joining the In the 16th and 17th centuries, the name of Huguenots came to apply to members of the Protestant Reformed Church of France. ...Huguenot cause of By Frans Pourbus the younger. ...Henry of Navarre (Henry IV) as both soldier and counsellor. Henry's accession to the throne of France _ Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins/monobook/IE50Fixes. ...France entailed an, at least nominal, conversion to the The Roman Catholic Church, most often spoken of simply as the Catholic Church, is the largest Christian church, with over one billion members. ...Roman Catholic Church and Aubigné left his service to tend to his own Poitou was a province of France whose capital city was Poitiers. ...Poitou estates, even though his Huguenot confederates welcomed Henry's religious tolerance. When Marie de Medici (April 26, 1573 _ July 3, 1642), born in Italy as Maria de Medici, was queen consort of France under the French name Marie de Médicis. ...Maria de Medici became regent following Henry's assassination in Events January 7 _ Galileo Galilei discovers the Galilean moons of Jupiter. ...1610, she embraced the The Counter_Reformation or the Catholic Reformation was a strong reaffirmation of the doctrine and structure of the Catholic Church, climaxing at the Council of Trent, partly in reaction to the growth of Protestantism. ...Counter_Reformation and Aubigné's isolation made him an easy target. He was proscribed in Events September 6 _ English emigrants on the Mayflower depart from Plymouth, England for the future New England and arrive at the end of the year. ...1620 and fled to Geneva where he lived for the rest of his life.

His son Constant dAubigné (1584 or 1585 - 31 August 1647) was a French nobleman. ...Constant d'Aubigné led a scandalous life of adventure, fathering Françoise dAubigné, marquise de Maintenon Françoise dAubigné, marquise de Maintenon (November 27, 1635 _ April 15, 1719), the second wife of Louis XIV, was born in a prison at Niort. ...Madame de Maintenon.

Literary and historical works

• Histoire universelle ( Events Dirk Hartog lands on an island off the Western Australian coast Pocahontas arrives in England War between Venice and Austria Collegium Musicum founded in Prague Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church Births May 24 _ John Maitland, Duke of...1616– Events March 8 _ Johannes Kepler discovers the third law of planetary motion (he soon rejects the idea after some initial calculations were made but on May 15 confirms the discovery). ...1618)
• Les Tragiques ( Events Dirk Hartog lands on an island off the Western Australian coast Pocahontas arrives in England War between Venice and Austria Collegium Musicum founded in Prague Nicolaus Copernicus De revolutionibus is placed on the Index of Forbidden Books by the Roman Catholic Church Births May 24 _ John Maitland, Duke of...1616)