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2 unusual facts about Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet


Charlotte de La Marck

Louis de Brézé, Count of Maulévrier

Marie de Valois

Her older sister Charlotte married Jacques de Brézé, Count of Maulevrier, and mothered Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet, husband of Diane de Poitiers.


Château d'Anet

A large part of the château was subsequently demolished, but only after Alexandre Lenoir was able to salvage some architectural elements for his Musée des monuments français ( presently situated in the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris).

Garden design

Some of the earliest formal parterres of clipped evergreens were those laid out at Anet by Claude Mollet, the founder of a dynasty of nurserymen-designers that lasted deep into the 18th century.

James Levingston, 1st Earl of Newburgh

Livingston married firstly before 1648 Catherine Stuart, widow of George, 9th Seigneur d'Aubigny and daughter of Theophilus Howard, 2nd Earl of Suffolk.

Jean Goujon

He became "sculptor to the king" (Henry II of France) in 1547 and in the next years was occupied at the Château of Anet.

Jean Schopfer

Under the name Claude Anet, Schopfer published many books, including La Révolution Russe, written after a trip to Russia during World War I, Mayerling, based on the Mayerling Incident, and Simon Kra, a biography of tennis player Suzanne Lenglen.

Louis de Brézé, seigneur d'Anet

He did not know at the time that his father-in-law, Jean de Poitiers, Seigneur de Saint Vallier, was involved in the plot.

His home was the family seat, the Château d'Anet, which stood in a royal hunting preserve in the valley of the Eure.

His paternal grandfather was Pierre de Brézé, who had built a Gothic château near the foundation of the dismantled donjon of Anet.

Ludlul bēl nēmeqi

Ludlul bel nemeqi, I Will Praise the Lord of Wisdom, is a Mesopotamian poem (ANET, pp. 434–437) written in Akkadian that concerns itself with the problem of the unjust suffering of an afflicted man, named Shubshi-meshre-Shakkan.

Magellan Project Science Team

The Magellan Project Science Team consisted of Dr. R. Stephen Saunders, the Project Scientist; Dr. Ellen Stofan, the Deputy Project Scientist; research assistants Tim Parker, Dr. Jeff Plaut, and Anet DiCharon; and Project Science Aide, Gregory Michaels.

Parterre

His inspiration in developing the 16th-century patterned compartimens—simple interlaces formed of herbs, either open and infilled with sand or closed and filled with flowers—was the painter Etienne du Pérac, who returned from Italy to the château of Anet, where he and Mollet were working.


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