François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres, was a successful soldier and glamorous courtier who figures in accounts of the brilliant but decadent French court of the 1550s.
Drawing with colour by François Clouet, about 1550
The medieval Château de la Ferté Vidame, built by the Vendômes
Drawing with colour, workshop of François Clouet, about 1550
Drawing with colour, workshop of François Clouet, c. 1540s
Vidame de Chartres
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Vidame de Chartres was a title in the French nobility. There are a few vidame titles in France, of which that of Chartres is probably the best known, because a number of holders have been notable in w
François de Vendôme, vidame de Chartres
…François de Vendôme, Vidame de Chartres (1522 – 22 December 1560), was a successful soldier and glamorous courtier who figures in accounts of the brilliant but decadent French court of the…
The ruins of the Château de la Ferté-Vidame in 2005
Claude de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon, father of the memoirist