Louis de Cossé of Brissac (1625-1661)
Louis de Cossé of Brissac , born in 1625 and died in 1661, third duke of Brissac.
Of alive sound, his/her father François de Cossé, 2nd duke of Brissac give up gives up his ducal title in favor of his son. He was general lieutenant of Brittany. Louis, 3rd duke marries, Marguerite, Francoise de Gondi, who brings to him the duchy of Beaupréau, which makes of it a cousin by alliance Retz. But it is also by his sister, brother-in-law of the marshal of Meilleraie. However when Retz escapes from the castle of Nantes, its geôlier is precisely the marshal of Meilleraie. And Retz requires asylum of Brissac which grants it to him. The 3ee duke also has a girl who will be the marshal's wife de Villeroy. Brissac leans for Retz, because his wife involved it in the camp of the Fronde the USSR. Moreover, it has an aversion for Meilleraie. It was faithful to Retz in various circumstances which were not alleviating. For all to simplify, it seems, if one believes Retz of it, that the woman of Brissac was the mistress of Retz.
Moreover the son of the 3rd duke, Henri de Cossé, 4th duke of Brissac dies on December 29th, 1698. He had married in first weddings the half-sister (dead in 1684) of Saint-Simon " with which he had very badly lived " , known as this one. He reproaches him initially his " Italian taste " (homosexuality) and makes a portrait without kindness of it: " Mr. de Brissac knew much, and infinitely had more pleasant spirit and, with a figure of dish apothecary, grosset, basset hound, and extremely enluminé. It was of these men born to make scorn the spirit, and to be the plague of their house. A life obscure, ashamed, of the last and more unpleasant vice, with what it was radically ruined not to have not bread a long time before dying, without table, crew, anything never which had appeared, court, war, and without to have ever seen man nor woman that one could name. Thimble was wire of the younger brother of its father, dead knight of the order. "
The duchy of Brissac, remained without direct heir, is raised, mainly thanks to the intervention of Saint-Simon, by Artus, count of Thimble-Brissac (1668-1709), then duke in 1700, wire of Louis-Timoléon, count de Cossé (death in 1677) and younger brother of Louis, the 3rd duke of Brissac.
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