Lamballe

Lamballe is a metropolis and a former commune within the Cotes-d'Armor branch in Brittany in northwestern France. On 1 January 2019, it changed into merged into the new commune Lamballe-Armor. Lamballe changed into the capital of the territory of the Counts of Penthievre, who in 1569 were made dukes. La Noue, the famous Huguenot leader, became mortally wounded in 1591 in the siege of the citadel, which became dismantled in 1626 by Richelieu. The final Duke of Penthievre granted his son Louis the identify Prince of Lamballe.

The Prince de Lamballe married Marie Therese de Savoie-Carignan and she or he took the identify Princesse de Lamballe. The Princesse lived together with her father-in-law after the early loss of life of her husband. She become a near friend of Queen Marie Antoinette and one of the maximum well-known victims of the French Revolution. Charles Armand Tuffin, marquis de la Rouerie, hero of the American warfare of independence, died close to Lamballe in 1793. Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet's father changed into a Lamballe local of Breton descent. On 1 January 2016 the previous commune of Meslin turned into merged into Lamballe.