Pierre Chanut

Pierre Hector Chanut (born February 22, 1601 in Riom , Puy-de-Dôme department , † July 3, 1662 in Livry-sur-Seine , Seine-et-Marne department ) was a French diplomat and councilor of state.

Life

Pierre Chanut married Marguerite Clerselier, a sister of Claude Clerselier , in 1626 . They had eight children. Jules Mazarin sent him to Stockholm , where he was Louis XIV's ambassador to Queen Christina of Sweden from 1646 to 1649 .

From May 15 to October 24, 1648, Pierre Chanut was part of the French delegation in Osnabrück to negotiate the Peace of Westphalia . He got to know René Descartes through his brother-in-law Claude Clerselier . Pierre Chanut brokered Descartes' invitation from Queen Christina to Tre Kronor Castle , where he contracted pneumonia and died in the house of Chanut in Mälaren on February 11, 1650.

As a result of his reports about Christina, Pierre Bourdelot and Gabriel Naudé made guest appearances at Tre Kronor Castle in 1652 . From 1651 to 1652 Chanut had a mandate in Lübeck to settle the conflict between Sweden and Poland-Lithuania , which was fought militarily in the second Northern War . From 1653 to 1655 he was envoy to the States General in the Republic of the Seven United Provinces .

Pierre Chanut was looking after Christina of Sweden in Fontainebleau when her diplomat Giovanni Monaldeschi in chain mail was hunted and stabbed to death on November 10, 1657 . The monarch declared that it was not the murder of her diplomat Ludovico Santinelli di Pesaro, but that she had exercised her right to judge her entourage.

In 1676 the memoir written by Pierre Hector Chanut was published.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://search.eb.com/women/article-9082429
2. ↑ Joachim Grage Exposures: Christina von Schweden in Frauenbiographik , p. 40

predecessor	Office	successor
Melchior du Héron	French ambassador to Stockholm 1646 to 1649	Pierre Piques
M. Brasset	French ambassador to The Hague 1653 to 1655	Jacques-Auguste de Thou, baron de Meslay