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    The Maupeou family is a French aristocratic family from the Île-de-France, several representatives of which played a role as Controller-General of Finances...
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    Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (/tʊərˈɡoʊ/ toor-GOH; French: [an ʁɔbɛʁ ʒak tyʁɡo]; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot...
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    Jacques Antoine Marie de Cazalès (February 1, 1758 – November 24, 1805) was a French orator and politician. De Cazalès was born at Grenade, Haute-Garonne...
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    Suzanne Caroline de Maupeou (1884–1951), daughter of the respected aristocratic and wealthy Protestant industrialist Viscount de Maupeou. The court documents...
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    accepted as an auditor of finances on 2 September 1602, a year before Pierre de Maupeou, Espérance Bellanger's cousin and son-in-law of Denis Feydeau who was...
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    alumni include: statesmen the Cardinal de Fleury, the Duc de Choiseul, the Cardinal de Bernis, the Chancelier de Maupeou, Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Maximilien...
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    the advocate". In 1771, Conti took the lead in opposing the chancellor, Maupeou. He supported the parlements against the government and was hostile to...
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    René Nicolas Charles Augustin de Maupeou, to implement his decree for the reorganization of the hospital. De Maupeou refused to carry out the decree...
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    numerous high positions in government) and of Marie de Maupeou (who came from a family of the noblesse de robe and who was famous for her piety and charitable...
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    of French laws possible. After she learned about the famous failure of Maupeou's Reform in 1771 at the age of 17, she was inspired to begin documenting...
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    Jacques (1530–1598), from whom all future generations descend, and his brother, Esaïe. After the death of his first wife, Jacquemine Favre, Jacques married...
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  • at this time. He left office in 1710 and was replaced by the Chevalier de Maupeou-Ribaudon (died 1725), a naval officer. On 22 September 1710 the king gave...
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    Madame de Pompadour in 1764, his enemies, incorporating the King's new mistress, Madame du Barry, in their plots, and the chancellor Maupeou, were too...
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    and/or government Cardinal de Fleury (1653–1743), de facto first minister 1726–1743, at LLG ca. 1659–1665 René Nicolas de Maupeou (1714–1792), chief minister...
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    des anciens sénateurs de la IIIème République. Liste des anciens sénateurs de la IVème République. Liste des anciens sénateurs de la Vème République. Liste...
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    the date. Querelle de M.M. de Voltaire et de Maupertuis (1753) Correspondance secrète, et familière du chancelier de Maupeou avec Sorhouet (1771, in-12)...
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  • aristocratic clients including Henri de La Tour d'Auvergne-Lauraguais, the Comtesse de Maupeou, Comte Edmond de Fels, Comte Moïse de Camondo, Duveen, Seligmann...
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    capacity attracted the attention of Louis XV's chancellor, René Nicolas de Maupeou, who made him controller general in December 1769. His first big venture...
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    deference to popular clamour, the members of the old Parlement ousted by Maupeou, thus reconstituting the most dangerous enemy of the royal power. This...
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    for its opposition to a new method of administering justice devised by Maupeou, who planned to greatly diminish its powers and those of the parlements...
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  • capable in contentious matters; he was among those who helped the chancellor Maupeou to prepare the coup majesty of 1770. According to Baron Besenval, it was...
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    Parliament).[citation needed] He became one of Chancellor René Nicolas de Maupéou's chief advisers, taking part in his struggle against the parlements and...
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    d'Anglure de Bourlemont 1664 to 16. April 1682: Michel Tubeuf 3 July 1682 to 11. April 1705: Augustin de Maupeou 11 April 1705 to 26. June 1736: Honoré de Quiqueran...
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  • Gilles de Maupeou (1600–1608) and (1611–1621) Isaac Arnauld (1605–1617) (†) Louis Dollé (1614–1616) (†) Charles Duret de Chevry (1615–1633) Pierre de Castille...
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    realm. Radical financial reforms by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes angered the nobles and were blocked...
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    of the magistrates in their revolt against the policies of Chancellor de Maupeou and his Triumvirate to destroy the parliamentary system. The most radical...
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    Montmorillon, Harcourt (1960), La Barre de Nanteuil [fr] (1977), Maupeou d'Ableiges (2018), Le Tourneux de La Perraudière, among others. La Contrie Castle Bretonnière...
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    Parlement (redirect from Parlement de Dijon)
    Chancellor René Nicolas de Maupeou sought to reassert royal power by suppressing the parlements in 1770. His famous attempts, known as Maupeou's Reform, resulted...
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    and chancellor Maupeou to modernise Justice and make it less corrupt, widely and vociferously denounced as tyranny by the noblesse de robe having lost...
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    of the National Convention (4 June 1793 – 27 July 1794) with Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès as President of the National Convention (7 October 1794...
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