His situation at the Court obliged him to marry. In a salon in the Marais that he goes to regularly he meets a rich widow, Charlotte-Anne de CHANLECY, Lady of Sainte-Croix.
This distinguished marriage is preceded on the 5^th of March 1659 by a contract which bears the signatures of :
LOUIS XIV, MAZARIN,
Antoine de GRAMONT, Duke and Peer, Marshal of France,François de BESMAUX Governor of the Bastille (compatriot of d’ARTAGNAN)

Contract of marriage : with the prestigious signatures of Louis XIV and Mazarin.

Louis XIV

Parisian salons