Louis Deshayes, Baron de Courmemin (1600 – 12 October 1632), was a French diplomat.
Biography Advisor to Louis XIII,Dezobry and Bachelet, Dictionnaire de biographie, t.1, Ch.Delagrave, 1876, p. 781 he was sent on several missions to the Levant, Denmark, Safavid Iran and the Tsardom of Russia.
Having joined a conspiracy against Cardinal Richelieu, he was arrested under the orders of his rival Hercules de Charnacé, at MainzLouis Deshayes de Courmenin et l' Muslim East (1621-1626) and beheaded at Béziers in 1632.
Works Voyage du Levant, fait par le commandement du roi en 1621, Paris, 1624 Voyages au Danemark, 1664.
Notes and references
Bibliography Pierre Margry, Une ambassade des Français en Russie sous Louis XIII (1629), dans Revue maritime et coloniale, juillet 1861, (lire en ligne -, erratum)