Tristan l'Hermite
Tristan l'Hermite (died c. 1478) was a French political and military figure of the late Middle Ages. He was born in Flanders near the beginning of the century.
- See also François Tristan l'Hermite
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He was provost of the marshals of the King's household under Louis XI of France, which gave him enormous power in the intrigues and plots that characterized that king's 22-year reign.
The mystique surrounding his name caused the 17th-century French poet and playwright François l'Hermite to take his name as a pseudonym.
He appears as a figure in Victor Hugo's Notre-Dame de Paris, in Walter Scott's Quentin Durward, in the Justin Huntly McCarthy play If I Were King, and in the operetta made from the play, Rudolf Friml's The Vagabond King. He is also a character, as a young man still in the service of Arthur III of Brittany, in Juliette Benzoni's "Catherine" novel, Les Routes incertaines.