Jean, comte de Gassion (1609 Pau – 1647 Lens) was a Gascon military commander for France, prominent at the battle of Rocroi (1643) who reached the rank of Marshal of France at the age of thirty-four. He served Louis XIII and Louis XIV and died of wounds sustained during the 1647 siege of Lens (not to be confused with the Battle of Lens the following year).
Jean, comte deGassion (1609 Pau – 1647 Lens) was a Gascon military commander for France, prominent at the battle of Rocroi (1643) who reached the rank...
subordinates, such as Marshal JeandeGassion. French forces in the area numbered 23,000. Enghien advanced to meet de Melo's numerically superior army...
de Pure (1673). La Vie du Maréchal deGassion (in French). Vol. III. Paris: Guillaume de Luyne. Du Prat, Pierre (1664). Le Portrait du Mareschal de Gassion...
should he be called upon to do so. In 1647, Rupert fought under Marshal JeandeGassion against the Spanish. After a three-week siege, Rupert took the powerful...
Louis Alphonse Gassion (10 May 1881 – 3 March 1944) was best-known as the father of Édith Piaf, the singer who was known as France's national chanteuse...
va-nu-pieds is crushed by the troops of French Army Colonel JeandeGassion under orders of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, with 300 of the rebels...
France. Killed at Dunkirk in 1653. Jean de Gassion Maréchal de France. Killed at Lens in 1647. Jacques de Rougé, marquis du Plessis-Bellière. Lieutenant...
va-nu-pieds is crushed by the troops of French Army Colonel JeandeGassion under orders of Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu, with 300 of the rebels...
Guérin de Tencin, cardinal, archbishop-count of Lyon, Primate of the Gauls, State minister. Knight : JeandeGassion, chevalier marquis deGassion and Alluye...
Scotland, and Ireland (died 1669) Louis Boullogne, painter (died 1674) JeandeGassion, military commander (died 1647) André du Laurens, physician (born 1558)...
(1611–1675), Marshal of France in 1643, Marshal General of France in 1660 Jean, Count of Gassion, (1609–1647), Marshal of France in 1643[citation needed] César,...
Lalemant and Jeande Brébeuf. November 30 – Revolt of the va-nu-pieds is suppressed before Avranches by royal troops directed by JeandeGassion. Before December...
(TV mini-series) – Giovanna di Savoia La Vie en Rose (2007) – Annetta Gassion Modern Love (2008) – Marie Chez Maupassant (1 episode, 2008, TV episode...
person solely responsible for supplying the menagerie with animals. Mosnier Gassion was appointed and he had to travel to the Levant, Egypt and Tunisia to...
Condé gave the signal for his squadrons to open fire and then led the Gassion squadron on a charge, crushing the Lorrainer squadron opposite him. Six...
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