Draft:Charles de Lorme2

Charles de Lorme (1584 - 31 December 1678) He is most well known for being the creator of the plague doctor suit.

Biography
Charles de Lorme was born in 1584 to Jean de Lorme who was a professor at the University of Montpellier. Jean had been the physician to the Queen of France, Louise de Lorraine-Vaudémont. After he was the physician to the French author and wife of Henry IV of France.

In 1606, likely to his father's reputation, Charles also became the physician to Henry IV of France, in 1607 he graduated from the University of Montpellier, shortly after he moved to Paris to study medicine under the teaching of his father and with Charles's continuing growing fame he soon became the family physician to many members of the House of Medici With his growing reputation as a physician to many of the French aristocracy and became a personal physician to three Kings of France, Henry IV, Louis XIII and Louis XIV

During the reign of Louis XIII Charles took care of Cardinal Richelieu many times when he became unwell, Richelieu told many nobles about Charles which gained him many more patients around France, especially nobles. Even still after Louis XIV became King Charles was still the Chief Physician.