Lauzun

ANTOINE NOMPAR DE CAUMONT, DUC DE, (lozoon',) a French courtier of the court of Louis XIV., B. in Gascony, 1632, and whose career forms one of the romances of history. He is said to have secretly married Anna Maria de Montpensier, " La Grande Demoiselle," cousin to the king. Ten years ofhis later life, 1671-81, he pa ed in prison, to which he had been consigned through the enmity of the reigning favorite, Madame de Monte span. [s. 531]