ABSTRACT
The Marshal de St. Geran, of the noble house of De la Guiche, was first married to Mademoiselle de Tournon, by whom he had a son, Claude de la Guiche, Count de St. Geran; and a daughter, married to the Marquis de Bouille. His second wife was Susannah aux Epaules, the widow of the Count de Lonquenay, to whom she had borne a daughter, Susannah de Lonquenay. On his decease, the Count de St. Geran succeeded him in his government of the Bourbonnois; and the king gave him the ribands of those orders with which his father had been honoured. For many years after this period the Count and Countess of St. Geran continued without children; but at length, in 1640, the Countess became pregnant; a circumstance that gave the greatest joy to her mother the Marshaless, and to all who were attached to the family of de la Guiche.
