Guillaume Dubois: Difference between revisions

Dubois, the third of the four great Cardinal-Ministers ([[Cardinal Richelieu|Richelieu]], [[Cardinal Mazarin|Mazarin]], Dubois, and [[André-Hercule de Fleury|Fleury]]), was born in [[Brive-la-Gaillarde]], in [[Limousin (province)|Limousin]]. He was, according to his enemies, the son of an apothecary, his father being in fact a doctor of medicine of a respectable family, who kept a small drug store as part of the necessary outfit of a country practitioner. He was educated at the school of the [[Brothers of the Christian Doctrine]] at Brive, where he received the [[tonsure]] at the age of thirteen. In 1672, having finished his philosophy course, he was given a scholarship at the college of St. Michel in Paris by the lieutenant-general of the Limousin. The head of the college, the abbé Antoine Faure, who was from the same part of the country as himself, befriended the lad, and continued to do so for many years after he had finished his course, finding him pupils and ultimately obtaining for him the post of tutor to the young duke of Chartres, afterwards the regent [[Philippe II, Duke of Orléans|Duke of Orléans]].<ref>Historical Memoirs of the Duc de Saint-Simon Edited by Lucy Norton Hamish Hamilton London 1968 Vol. 1 p. 13</ref>