Background
The only son of Charles, Baron de Renty, and Elisabeth de Pastoureau, Gaston studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, with the Jesuits at Caen, and finished at the age of seventeen at the College of the Nobles in Paris.
The only son of Charles, Baron de Renty, and Elisabeth de Pastoureau, Gaston studied at the Collège de Navarre in Paris, with the Jesuits at Caen, and finished at the age of seventeen at the College of the Nobles in Paris.
University of Paris.
He wrote several treatises on mathematics, in which he excelled. In 1638 he abandoned public life and devoted himself to the service of the needy and suffering. Struck by the ignorance, in religious matters, of travellers at the Hospital of Saint Gervaise in Paris, he gave them catechetical instructions and induced others to do likewise.
They worked at their trade, divided their earnings with the poor and performed special acts of devotion prescribed by the pastor of Saint Paul"son
The statutes were approved by the Archbishop of Paris, Jean Francis de Gondi. After his death, Renty"s body was brought to Citri in the Diocese of Soissons.
When the coffin was opened nine years later his body was found intact. The bishop ordered it placed in a marble tomb behind the high altar.
Throughout his career at court, in the army, and in politics he merited the esteem of all, and took an active part in public good works.
