- See also François Tristan l'Hermite
Tristan l'Hermite (died c. 1478) was a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages. He was born in Flanders near the beginning of the century.
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He was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France. Prior to this, he was also a provost marshal to Charles VII.[1] He had also become captain of Mussy-l'Évêque in 1431[2][3] and then Grand Master of Artillery in 1436.[4] He was awarded knighthood in 1451.[5]
The mystique surrounding his name caused the 17th-century French poet and playwright François l'Hermite to take his name as a pseudonym.
He appears as a figure in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris,[6] in Walter Scott's Quentin Durward,[7] in the Justin Huntly McCarthy play If I Were King,[8] and in the operetta made from the play, Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King.[9] He is also a character, as a young man still in the service of Arthur III of Brittany, in Juliette Benzoni's "Catherine" novel, Les Routes incertaines.
References
edit- ^ Viriville, Auguste Vallet de (1872). Mémoire sur les institutions de Charles VII (in French). Librairie Renouard, Henry Loones successeur. p. 76. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Positions des mémoires présentés à la faculté des lettres pour l'obtention du diplôme d'études supérieures: (histoire et géographie) session de juin 1897 (in French). Université de Paris. 1897. p. 55. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Contamine, Philippe (25 September 2017). Guerre, état et société à la fin du moyen âge: Études sur les armées des rois de France 1337–1494 (in French). Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. p. 411. ISBN 978-3-11-133064-8. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Mandrot, Bernard Édouard de; Samaran, Charles (1920). Dépêches des ambassadeurs milanais en France sous Louis XI et François Sforza (in French). Renouard, H. Laurens, successeur. p. 240. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Moréri, Louis (1759). Le Grand Dictionnaire Historique, Ou Le Mélange Curieux De L'Histoire Sacrée Et Profane (in French). Libraires Associés. p. 349. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Hugo, Victor (1888). Notre-Dame de Paris. Little, Brown and Company. p. 378. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Scott, Walter (1823). Quentin Durward. Archibald Constable and Company ... and Hurst, Robinson, and Company London. p. 102. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ McCarthy, Justin Huntly (1901). If I were king. New york: Grosset & Dunlap. p. 18. Retrieved 31 May 2024.
- ^ Dietz, Dan (2 February 2015). The Complete Book of 1940s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield. p. 174. ISBN 978-1-4422-4528-0. Retrieved 31 May 2024.