Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montrésor

Claude de Bourdeille, comte de Montresor (* 1606, † 1663 ) was a French nobleman who emerged in the intrigues of the first half of the 17th century. He is known beyond as a writer of memories.

The Count of Montresor was the great-nephew of the writer Pierre de Bourdeille, seigneur de Brantome. He was in 1635 one of the minions of Jean -Baptiste Gaston de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans, the younger brother of King Louis XIII. Bourdeille Orléans and Louis de Bourbon- Condé comte de Soissons together prepared the attack on Richelieu before, which failed in 1636 in camp near Amiens.

Claude de Bourdeille retired after six years on his property back, but joined the 1642 Cinq- Mars conspiracy, which also was directed against Richelieu. Their failure forced him to flee to England.

Richelieu's death in the same year allowed him to return, but his participation in the also failed cabal of importants ( under the leadership of François de Vendôme and the Duchesse de Chevreuse ), which is now directed against Jules Mazarin, led to another exile, this time in the Netherlands.

Returned once more to France, he joined again at the Duchesse of Chevreuse and now the Cardinal of Retz and thus the Fronde, which this time brought him before the incarceration in the Bastille and then in the Vincennes Castle. In 1653 he submitted to Mazarin and retired after the return from the public.