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1636Jan, 26

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul

Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul, French diplomat (b. 1552)
Jean Hotman, Marquis de Villers-St-Paul (1552 – 26 January 1636) was a French diplomat. Although he came from a Calvinist family, who had been exiled during the French Wars of Religion, Jean, through cultivating connections with Henry IV eventually was restored to a portion of his patrimony.

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