Louise of Béraudière of Isle Rouhet (1530 † after 1586), sometimes called " Beautiful Rouhet" (name which it held of a seigniory of her father, Louis of Béraudière), was a lady-in-waiting of Catherine de Médicis. One lends to him adventures with kings of France.
Biography
Of a great beauty, Louise of Béraudière allured the king de Navarre Antoine of Bourbon of which it became the mistress. It is claimed that she was encouraged by Catherine de Médicis who thus hoped to make pass her requirements at Antoine of Bourbon by her intermediary. Thus Antoine forsook little by little the affection of Jeanne d' Albret, his wife, and ends up converting with the Catholic religion. Jean Calvin, thrown into a panic this conversion even wrote:
" He is all in Venus, the matron, who is tested in this art, extracted from his harem what could catch the heart of our man in his filets."
Louise gave to Antoine in 1554 (or 1555) a son, Charles of Bourbon, which entered the orders and became archbishop of Rouen in 1594, before being forsaken by him for the marshal's wife of Saint-Andrew.
In 1562, it marries Louis de Madaillan d' Estissac, general lieutenant of the kingdom and governor of Aunis, then 60 years old. It leaves the court for the castle of Coulonges-the-Royal, in the Poitou, where it gives rise to a son, Charles, and in 1574 with a girl, Claude, who marries on March 27th 1587 François IV of Rochefoucauld. In its residence poitevine, it receives several important personalities such Catherine de Médicis, Marguerite de France, Michel de Montaigne and François Rabelais. After the death of her husband in 1565, it is courted by Pierre de Brantôme, which will address some impassioned worms to him:
" I never have, Rouet, suffered similar pain
And if have my blood considering the vermilion ground
Of lance, arquebusade and sword in many places,
Crois thus that one does not test in war wound such
That which comes us in the middle by the beautiful eyes
of a pure beauty humanly cruelle"
Nevertheless, she will prefer to grant her favors to famous the Michel de Montaigne. The rumor and puritan Protestant propaganda claim that Louise of Béraudière would have been used for déniaiser Charles IX, but the Simonin historian points out that the sexual delay of the child king makes impossible their relation. More seriously, it would have also been the momentary mistress of the fougeux duke of Anjou, at the point to be pregnant about it. All its life during, Louise will have the many ones sighing, of which Claude de Clermont, Viscount of Tallard. One night that Louise was tired of the repetitive words of loves of the Viscount, it will have déclamé to him:
" If you like me so much and that you so courageous that you are said, to give you your scraping-knife in your arm for the love of moi"
Lastly, in 1580, it meets Robert de Combaud, lord of Arcis-on-Paddle and Master of hotel of the king, of which it has two girls: Claude and Louise. But after the death of his/her son at the time of a duel in 1586, it disappears in loneliness and the repentance.
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