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BRISSAC, DUKES OF . The fief of Brissac in Anjou was acquired at the end of the 15th century by a noble French family named Cosse belonging to th'e same province. Rene de Cosse married into the Gouffier family, just then very powerful at court, and became premier panetier ( chief
governor of Piedmont and of Picardy. The second, Artus, who held the offices of grand panetier of France and superintendent of finance, distinguished himself in the religious wars. Charles II. de Cosse fought for the League, and as governor of Paris opened the gates of that town to Henry
marshal of France in 1594. Brissac was raised to a duchy in the peerage of France in 1611. Louis Hercule Timoleon de Cosse, duc de Brissac, and commandant of the constitutional guard of Louis XVI., was killed at Versailles
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