Tristan L'Hermite

:''See also François Tristan l'Hermite'' Tristan L'Hermite, grand maître de l'artillerie

Tristan l'Hermite (died c. 1478) was a French political and military figure of the late

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. He was born in

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near the beginning of the century. He was provost of the

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of the King's household under Louis XI of France, which gave him enormous power in the Intrigues and plots that characterized that king's 22-year reign. The mystique surrounding his name caused the 17th-century French poet and playwright François l'Hermite to take his name as a

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. He appears as a figure in

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's '' Notre-Dame de Paris'', in Walter Scott's ''

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'', in the

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'', and in the operetta made from the play,

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''. He is also a character, as a young man still in the service of Arthur III of Brittany, in

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's "Catherine" novel, ''Les Routes incertaines''. L'Hermite, Tristan L'Hermite, Tristan L'Hermite, Tristan {{France-mil-bio-stub