List of Famous people with last name Boissy
Artus Gouffier, Lord of Boissy
Artus Gouffier de Boissy was a French nobleman and politician. He was duke of Roannez and pair de France, count of Étampes, count of Caravaggio, baron of Passavant, of Maulévrier, of Roanne, of la Mothe-Saint-Romain, of Bourg-Charente and of Saint-Loup, lord of Oiron, of Villedieu-sur-Indre, of Valence and of Cazamajor. He served as Grand Master of France and attempted to negotiate a lasting peace between France and the House of Habsburg at the time of his early death.
Louis Michel de Boissy
Louis Michel de Boissy was an 18th-century French historian.
Louis de Boissy
Louis de Boissy was an 18th-century French poet and playwright. He was elected to seat 6 of the Académie française on 12 August 1754. He wrote satires and several comedies, of which the best is Les Dehors trompeurs ou l'Homme du jour, the great success of the 1740 season, with a cast including Quinault-Dufresne and Jeanne Quinault. Boissy had the concession to print the Mercure de France. His son was Louis Michel de Boissy. The historian Louis Michel de Boissy was his son.
Adrian Gouffier de Boissy
Adrian Gouffier de Boissy was a French Roman Catholic bishop and cardinal.