In 1505 Gui Duverger married Renee, heiress of Jacques Lemartin, seigneur de La Rochejacquelein, whose name he assumed.
Renee's optimistic outlook could positively influence almost anyone.
Country crooner Kenney Chesney and Bridgette Jones actress Renee Zellweger caught the world by surprise when they successfully pulled off a secret beach wedding in the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Renee's court became a rendezvous of men of letters and a refuge for the persecuted French Calvinists.
After his death in 1559, Renee returned to France and turned her duchy of Montargis into a centre of Protestant propaganda.
