page_title: François de Créquy
section_title: Legacy
hierarchical_section_title: François de Créquy / Legacy
caption_attribution_description: Deutsch: Schloß von Marines
context_page_description: François de Blanchefort de Créquy, later Marquis de Marines was a 17th-century French noble and soldier, who served in the wars of Louis XIV.
  The de Créquys were powerful and well-connected, his grandfather Charles I de Blanchefort being a Marshal of France. Rewarded for supporting the Royalists during the 1648-1653 civil war, his elder brother Charles was a senior advisor to Louis while François had a successful military career.
  Promoted Marshall in 1668, like other French soldiers of his generation he was over shadowed by Condé and Turenne. He fell from favour in April 1672 and although subsequently reinstated failed to regain his former prestige. He retired from service in 1684 and died in Paris in 1687.
context_section_description: In 1659, de Créquy purchased the lordship and chateau of Marines from Roger-Louis Brûlart, Marquis de Sillery (1619-1691), which remained in the family until 1714; the gardens were laid out by André Le Nôtre, leading landscape designer of the period. Paul Cézanne painted the chateau in 1890 and while unfinished, it is regarded as a masterpiece of perspective.
  De Créquy and his wife were buried in the church attached to the convent of Jacobins Saint-Honoré, Paris, demolished in 1816. Their memorial was designed by Charles Le Brun and executed by Antoine Coysevox; when the Jacobin Club took over the church during the French Revolution, this was moved to the Church of Saint-Roch, where it can be seen today.
  De Créquy is referenced by the English playwright John Dryden in his 1678 work Mr. Limberman or the Kind Keeper.
caption: Paul Cézanne; 'Château des environs de Paris' (Marines)
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