Paul De Foix

FOIX, PAUL DE (1528-1584), French prelate and diplo matist, was ambassador to England from 1561 to 1565. He was then sent to Venice, and returned a short time afterwards to England to negotiate a marriage between Queen Elizabeth and the duke of Anjou. He fulfilled several important missions during the reign of Henry III. of France. In 1577 he was made archbishop of Toulouse, and in 1579 was appointed ambassador to Rome, where he died on May 15, 1584.

There is some doubt as to the authenticity of

Les Lettres de Messire de Paul de Foix . . . (1628). See Gallia Christiana (1715 seq.) ; "Lettres de Catherine de Medicis," edited by Hector de la Ferriere (Paris, 188o seq.) in the Collection de documents inedits sur l'histoire de France.