Michel Luette , or Michel of the Valley , born with Blandouet close to Holy-Suzanne in Mayenne, baptized the June 4th 1566 and died in 1621 with Montauban, is a Militaire French which held an active role during the wars of religion in the rows of the members of a league.

Biography

• Michel Luette, born in Blandouet according to all the historians, would be, according to Ménage, the son of Guyon Luette and Catherine Ayrault .

The soldier

• Michel Luette had a role of first importance during the wars of religion. It ordered from Comper in the rows of the Ligueur S. Then one finds it with the Bataille of Craon and Saint-Symphorien , towards Chalonnes, where it defended a fort isolated “ acquiring great honor to have supported several attacks in the aforementioned place. ”

• After these wars, Michel Luette rejoined and served accurately Henri IV. It was in November 1599 that this king authorized the former captain member of a league to change his name of Luette into that of the Valley , name of the property which it had in Blandouet. Michel of the Valley builds his manor house then. Because of its military role and its quality of police chief of the Artillery, it particularly took care to give to its home a certain aspect of Forteresse. It made it surround by broad walled ditches, defended by a bastion and a bridge levis.

• Named ordinary police chief of artillery of France , then governor of the Holy-Suzanne city and the castle of in 1605, Michel of the Valley was to preserve these loads until its death at the seat of Montauban, in 1621. In addition to a title of nobility, obtained in January 1609, with the ordinary quality of gentleman of the room of the king , it accepted the collar of the Ordre of Saint-Michel the January 7th 1610. It was accepted by the Maréchal of Boisdauphin, his former chief, the March 16th 1609.

• It also was large voyer of Brittany, except for the voiery of évêché of Rennes. But this man also let the memory of a Gai Chanson deny of his party. The Bataille of Craon inspired its “ Piques Flies to him”.

See also: Guillaume Fouquet of the Game preserve

The “chansonnier”

• the soldier member of a league was also merry the chansonnier of his party. Its Spade-Flies , impromptu at the time of the Battle of Craon, is a rather sharp counterpart of the jokes of the Satire Ménippée . 6 worms out of 2 rhymes, with the corrosive refrain “It is only of going” , were enough to nail a name with the pilori member of a league. One knows 70 verses, qualified " stanzas liricques" by Louvet; one says that it was made by it more than 100, each one being exerted in this easy kind. It is in the number of fort commonplace, in style with the dragonne , would have said Gresset .

Family and descent

• Michel of the Valley links before 1600 its intended for that of Louise Trotereau , girl of the senior of the Masters of accounts of Nantes, probably in 1599. Francoise of Lorraine agreed to be the godmother of the first of their 8 children. To this occasion, it gave a banner to the church of Blandouet.

• the grandson of Michel of the Valley and Louise Trotereau, Rene of the Valley , produced the letters of ennoblement of its grandfather by Henri IV in front of the investigators.

• the family is extinct towards the end of the 17th century, melted in the Hardas , the Launay , and by the latter allied with the Sorhoette , of Pommerieux.