Francois De Montmorency Bouteville, seigneur de, sovereign count of Suxe, a French duellist, born in 1600, beheaded in Paris, June 27, 1627. In his youth he served against the Huguenots, and acquired notoriety as the most intrepid and skilful duellist of his day. For one of his duels, fought on Easter day, 1624, he, his adversary, and their seconds were condemned by the parliament of Paris to be hanged; but they escaped, and the scaffold was destroyed by their friends. In 1626 he killed a marquis de Thorigny, then wounded one of his intimate friends who reproached him because he had not chosen him as his second. For these two affairs he was obliged to fly to Brussels. The governing archduchess received him kindly, and interceded for his pardon with Louis XIII. The king refusing, Bouteville exclaimed, " As the king refuses to pardon me, I shall fight next in Paris." This he did, fighting a duel with the marquis de Beuvron, a relation and avenger of Thorigny. For this both were executed, in spite of the intercession of many powerful friends.

Bouteville left a widow, who six months after his death gave birth to a son, who became celebrated as the marshal de Luxembourg.