Dorval Langlois, sieur de Fancan (* approx. 1576, "† 1628) was Kanoniker of Saint Germain l'Auxerrois and one of the most important French secret agents cardinal Richelieus.

Since 1617 Fancon stood in relations with the bishop von Between 1621 and 1626 Fancon wrote at least ten political lampoons and/or writings, whose contents of Richelieu had been given either or inspired by him indirectly. Under these writings were:

• 1621 Discours salutaire et advice de la France outer mourante roi (dt. heilsame speech and advice dying France to the king)
• 1623 La France mourante (dt. the dying France)
• 1625 Miroir you temps  l l'usage you (dt. mirror of past times for use in the present)
• 1625 Discours sur les affaires de la Valteline et the Grisons, outer tout puissant et catholique roi d'Espagne (dt. paper over the affair of the Veltlins and the the all-powerful and catholic king dedicated by Spain)
• 1626 Le Discours salutaire sur affaires d'Allemagne (dt. greeting word over the current situation in Germany)

After contemporary reports fan CAN von Richelieu is to have been assigned the production of diplomatic telegrams, memoranda and instructions.

Besides fan CAN was occupied with lyric poetry. Thus it published 1626 the volume Le Tombeau of the novel (dt. the grave of the Romans).

Fan CAN was kept imprisoned on 4 June 1627 under the reproach of the agitation against the FE storage of the Huguenot fortress La Rochelle to have agitated (only on 12 September 1627 began) and in the Bastille in Paris. Since Richelieu accused it of in addition for foreign powers to have spied loading papers were seized, from which it followed that it correspondence with prominent Protestanten in Germany, Switzerland, whom the united Netherlands and England had led. Among them it should have come out that fan CAN received from the archbishop from Cologne Ferdinand from Bavaria or its brother Maximilian I. from Bavaria or both larger money. Furthermore it is to have left to the Englishmen supporting the Protestanten in La Rochelle militarily relevant information to come.

Richelieu is to have so been indignant about the betrayal one of its closest political coworkers, because he had sent him on numerous secret missions abroad in and and him in this connection large confidence had brought. In what respect such an experienced agent extensive correspondence, which occupied, waived its betrayal or whether it concerned production out of the environment of Joseph, does not leave itself free of doubts to clarify.

The French historian Gabriel Hanotaux regarded fan CAN equipped as a "typical secret agent, with skill, boldness, cold-bloodedness, and a strong slope to the plot". Fan CAN spent one year in the darkness and separatingness of the Bastille, before it deceased there.

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