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Why did Hugo Grotius live in Paris under the patronage of King Louis XIII?

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Oil portrait of Hugo de Groot, also known as Hugo Grotius, by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, showing him with a ruffled white collar and dark clothing. — Hugo Grotius Portrait of Hugo de Groot (Hugo Grotius), oil on panel by the workshop of Michiel Janszoon van Mierevelt, 1631; in the Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam.

Hugo Grotius lived in Paris under the patronage of King Louis XIII following his dramatic escape from imprisonment in the Netherlands.1

As a member of the Remonstrants, Grotius was caught in a bitter political struggle against the Gomarists, who were led by Prince Maurice. In 1618, Maurice executed a coup d’état and ordered the arrest of Arminian leaders. Grotius was sentenced to life imprisonment in the fortress of Loevestein for his political involvement. In 1621, he successfully escaped the castle by hiding in a chest of books and fled to France, where he remained under royal patronage until 1631.1