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3 unusual facts about Honoré d'Urfé


Honoré d'Urfé

In 1908 a bust of D'Urfé was erected at Virieu-le-Grand (Ain), where the greater part of L'Astrée was written.

He died from injuries received by a fall from his horse at Villafranca during a campaign against the Genoese.

Urfé

Honoré d'Urfé, marquis de Valromey, comte de Châteauneuf, a French novelist and miscellaneous writer


Action Française

However, the AF members were split between supporting the counter-revolutionary regime and their nationalism: after 1942, and in particular in 1943, some members, such as Henri d'Astier de la Vigerie, Pierre Guillain de Bénouville or Honoré d'Estienne d'Orves joined the Resistance or escaped to join the Free French Forces.

Balthazar Baro

He studied at Tournon-sur-Rhône then at Valence, where he gained his law doctorate in 1615, and became secretary to Honoré d'Urfé, whom he had met when they attended the same collège in Tournon, he published Urfé's L'Astrée and wrote a fifth book for it himself (from his master's notes) in 1628.

François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé

François-Saturnin Lascaris d'Urfé, S.S. (1641 – June 30, 1701), was a French Sulpician priest known as the first resident pastor of the Parish of Saint-Louis du Haut de l'Île in what became the town of Baie-D'Urfé on the Island of Montreal in New France.

Philippe d'Albert, 11th duc de Luynes

Philippe d'Albert, 11th Duke of Luynes (August 12, 1905- July 13, 1993) was the son of Honoré d' Albert, 10th duc de Luynes and Simone de Crussol d' Uzès.


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