Henri de Campion

Henri de Campion (1613 - 1663) is a French soldier.

He had three brothers, of which one, Alexandre (1610-1670), appeared in the intrigues of the Sling and wrote also Mémoires and a Recueil of Letters to be used for the history of the famous men .

Intended as of childhood for the military career, it was useful in Lorraine, Franche-Comté under the orders of the force, Valetta, Bernard of Saxony-Weimar and Longueville; then in 1638, Roussillon under Schomberg, and Haccourt in Piedmont (1640 - 1641). It describes this general like pitiless. De Campion stuck to the duke of Beaufort.

Compromised in 1643 with the duke of Beaufort in the plot against the life of Mazarin during the Cabal of Important the, it left France during four years, then approached a little more of the Duc Longueville, with which it returned in grace to France and made, with the title of Colonel, the countryside of 1651 with 1654 in Lorraine and Picardy.

Following this countryside, it was withdrawn in its grounds of Boscferet and wrote its Mémoires there. This work interested the public so that in 1807, then in 1857, one published them. Historically important, these memories besides have just left again in library.

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