Note 226 — LETTERS TO MADAME DE GRIGNAN[11] FROM 1671 TO 1690. (continued 5)
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Frederic Armand, Count de Schomberg, marshal of France, obtained permission to retire from the king’s service in 1685, on account of his having embraced the Protestant religion. He was minister of state, and generalissimo of the armies of the Elector of Brandenbourg, and went over to England in 1688 with the Prince of Orange.