Michel de Marillac

Michel de Marillac (October 1563 in

Marillac was entrusted with the position of Keeper of the Seals (garde des sceaux, a Chancellor without the title),^[1] after Chancellor d'Aligre was disgraced, in June 1626, compromised by his fidelity to Gaston d'Orléans.

He gained increasing influence with Marie de' Medici. After the Day of the Dupes, 11 November 1630, Richelieu had Marillac tried by a court of hand-picked judges; he died in captivity in 1632. Marillac's brother Louis, who had served as a general of the French army in Italy during the War of the Mantuan Succession, was beheaded that same year.

Michel was the guardian of Louis' natural daughter Louise de Marillac, who became a nun, was a follower of Saint Vincent de Paul, with whom she founded the Daughters of Charity on 29 November 1633.

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References

• Dictionnaire des surintendants et contrôleurs généraux des finances: Michel de Marillac

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