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Chastelard, Pierre de Boscosel de

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Chastelard, Pierre de Boscosel de (1540–1563)

French poet. In 1561 he went to Scotland in the suite of Mary Queen of Scots, with whom he fell violently in love. Having twice been found hiding in her room, he was hanged.

He is the subject of Algernon Swinburne's verse drama Chastelard (1865).



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