Person Hyacinthe; Paul de Saint (1684 - 1746) Hyacinthe Paul de Saint Paul de Saint Hyacinthe Cordonnier Chevalier de Themiseul 1684 - 1746 French Male Orleans, France 24 September 1684 Genecken, near Breda, Holland 1746

Author Education: Oratory school, Troyes Career: Served as a cavalry officer; taken prisoner at the Battle of Helmstett and taken to Holland (1704); paroled, he went to Sweden in the hope of serving in the army of Charles XII but was unsuccessful and returned to Holland; had an affair with the wife of the Spanish Ambassador at the Hague and returned to Troyes when her husband discovered it; seduced a girl to whom he was giving Italian lessons and was forced to flee back to Holland; with Willem Jakob 's Gravesande and others founded the 'Journal litteraire de La Haye' (1713); wrote 'Chef d'oeuvre d'un inconnu', a witty criticism of pedantry which was a great popular success; he twice returned to Paris but was forced to depart because he was still wanted on a charge of rape; eloped with his future wife to London, where he received a pension as a Protestant refugee (1722); returned to Paris (1722) but, finding it boring, settled at Genecken Son of J J Cordonnier, Groom of the Chamber to Monsieur, brother of Louis XIV; married - de Marconay, daughter of a Huguenot refugee from Poitou Fellow 24/10/1728 Paul Buissiere John Gaspar Scheuchzer Peter Desmaizeaux Sources: Bulloch's Roll; Biog Univ International Standard Archival Authority Record for Corporate Bodies, Persons and Families - ISAAR(CPF) - Ottawa 1996 ISBN 0-9696035-3-3 National Council on Archives, Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997 NA7004 21/11/2001 Andyg Pmab 28/03/2023 RS_NET\JonathanB Yes f37bdd65-a6b7-46f2-b792-547ff96b2e52