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Philippe de Mornay
Philippe de Mornay (5 November 1549 – 11 November 1623), seigneur du Plessis Marly, usually known as Du-Plessis-Mornay or Mornay Du Plessis, was a French Protestant writer and member of the anti-monarchist "Monarchomaques".
Biography.
He was born in Buhy, now situated in Val-d'Oise. His mother had leanings toward Protestantism, but his father tried to counteract her influence by sending him to the Collège de Lisieux at Paris. On his father's death in
Philippe de Mornay" was published. The accounts in the memoir are about her husband, but the writing gives insight to what a great writer Charlotte was. Her husband, Philippe, wrote an account of her death, in which he claimed that she continued to affirm her Protestant faith until the day she died.
Sources.
- Mémoires de Madame de Mornay
- Mémoires et correspondance de Duplessis-Mornay (1824)
- Memoires de messire Philippes de Mornay, seignevr dv Plessis Marli
- "Mémoires de