Jérôme Phélypeaux comte de Pontchartrain, was a French politician

Politician

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, son of Louis Phélypeaux

Louis Phélypeaux (1643-1727)

Louis Phélypeaux , marquis de Phélypeaux , comte de Maurepas , comte de Pontchartrain , known as the chancellor de Pontchartrain, was a French politician....

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He served as a councillor to the parlement

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 of Paris from 1692, and served with his father as Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi

Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi

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 and Navy Minster

Secretary of State of the Navy (France)

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 from 1699 onwards. His management of the French Navy

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 was criticised, but recent historiography

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 has reevaulated his contributions. He directed a significant programme of explorations and encouraged the settlement and development of Louisiana

Louisiana (New France)

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. He was responsible for the creation of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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His first marriage, in 1697, was with Éléonore Christine de La Rochefoucauld de Roye (known as Mademoiselle de Chefboutonne) (1681–June 1708). Five children were born to this marriage:

1. Marie Françoise Christine (1698–1701)
2. Louis François (1700–1708), comte de Maurepas
3. Jean Frédéric
   Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas
   Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas was a French statesman.He was born at Versailles, the son of Jérôme Phélypeaux, secretary of state for the marine and the royal household...
   
    (1701–1781), comte de Maurepas, later comte de Pontchartrain
4. Paul Jérôme (1703– ?), marquis de Chefboutonne, a soldier
5. Charles Henri (1706–1734), bishop of Blois

He remarried in July 1713 with Hélène de L'Aubespine (1690–1770), with whom he had two daughters.

1. Marie Louise (known as Rosalie), (1714–1780)
2. Hélène Françoise Angélique (1715–1781), who married Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais
   Louis-Jules Mancini-Mazarini, Duc de Nivernais
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In 1715, with the death of Louis XIV and the assumption of power by the Regent

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

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, Phélypeaux was compelled to resign his ministries in favour of his son Jean-Frédéric. Effective authority, and later the guardianship of his children, passed to his kinsman Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de La Vrillière

Louis Phélypeaux (1672-1725)

Louis Phélypeaux , marquis de La Vrillière, was a French politician.He succeeded his father Balthazar Phélypeaux as minister for the "so-called Reformed religion", that is with responsibility for Huguenots in 1700...

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