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BALUE, JEAN (c. 1421-1491) , French cardinal and minister of Louis XI., was born of very humble parentage at Angle
bishop
vicar
bishop
almoner . In a short time Balue became a considerable personage. In 1465 he received the bishopric of Evreux; the king made him le premier du grant conseil, and, in spite of his dissolute life, obtained for him a cardinalate (1468). But in that year Balue was compromised in the king's humiliation by Charles the Bold at Peronne and excluded from the council. He then intrigued with Charles against his master: their secret correspondence was intercepted, and on the 23rd of April 1469 Balue was thrown into prison, where he remained eleven years, but not, as has been alleged, in an iron cage. In 148o, through the intervention of Pope
See Henri Forgeot, " Jean
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