BORN_SHORT ‎1549/1550 Maine, Charente, Poitou-Charentes, France , DIED_SHORT ‎1633 Rochelle, Poitou Provence, France ‎, approximately 84 years
A shoemaker took them in and taught Jacques II how to mend and to make shoes. He not only supported himself and his brothers on his meager wages, but soon was able to establish his own business, in which he prosperred. He married in the early part of 1603 and his first son Jacques III was born the same year.

Left property at Rochelle amounting to 9,000 livre. Married twice and had several children but only three lived to be married - one son and two daughters. After the death of his first wife, Jacques remarried but had no children. His second wife, a mean woman, tired of him and tried to poison him without succeeding. This being too notorious to keep quiet, she was taken to prison, tried and condemned to death.

Upon learning that King Henry IV was visiting at la Rochelle, Jacques applied to him for a pardon for his wife.

King Henry IV "wanting to judge from the man's appearance whether there was an excuse for the wife's act", demanded that Jacques appear before him. When he saw him, he shouted, "Let her be hanged, let her be hanged. He is the handsomest man in my Kingdom".