Jérôme Phélypeaux

Jérôme Phélypeaux, Count of Pontchartrain (March 1674^[2] – 8 February 1747^[3]), comte de (count of) Pontchartrain, was a French statesman, son of Louis Phélypeaux and Marie de Maupeou.^[4][5]

Jérôme Phélypeaux
Count of Pontchartrain
Portrait of Jérôme Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain
Secretary of State of the Navy
Reign	6 September 1699 - 1 October 1715
Predecessor	Louis Phélypeaux
Successor	Louis Alexandre de Bourbon
Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi
Reign	6 September 1699[1] - 7 November 1715
Predecessor	Louis Phélypeaux
Successor	Louis Phélypeaux
Born	March 1674
Died	8 February 1747
Spouses	Éléonore Christine de La Rochefoucauld de Roye Hélène de L'Aubespine
Issue	Marie Françoise Christine Louis François Jean Frédéric Paul Jérôme Charles Henri Marie Louise Hélène Françoise Angélique
House	Pontchartrain Branch of the House of Phélypeaux
Father	Louis Phélypeaux
Mother	Marie de Maupeou

Biography

He served as a councillor to the parlement of Paris from 1692,^[6] and served as Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi and Navy Minister from 1699 onwards. His management of the French Navy was criticised, but recent historiography has reevaluated his contributions. He directed a significant programme of explorations and encouraged the settlement and development of Louisiana. He was responsible for the creation of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres.

Private life

His first marriage, in 1697, was with Éléonore Christine de La Rochefoucauld de Roye (1681-1708) (known as Mademoiselle de Chefboutonne) (1681–June 1708).^[7] Five children were born to this marriage:

1. Marie Françoise Christine (1698–1701)
2. Louis François (1700–1708), comte de Maurepas
3. Jean Frédéric (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, Duke of Nevers

In 1715, with the death of Louis XIV and the assumption of power by the Regent, 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.

See also

• Château de Pontchartrain

Bibliography

• Sara E. Chapman, Private Ambition and Political Alliances the Phélypeaux de Pontchartrain Family and Louis XVI's Government, 1650-1715. Rochester N.Y. : University of Rochester Press, 2004. ISBN 1580461530.
• Charles Frostin, Les Pontchartrain, ministres de Louis XIV, Presses universitaires de Rennes, Rennes, 2006.
• Jean-Yves Nerzic, La place des armements mixtes dans la mobilisation de l'arsenal de Brest sous les deux Pontchartrain (1688-1697 & 1702-1713), Ed. H&D, 2010, ISBN 978-2-9142-6619-2.

References

1. Nouvelle biographie générale depuis les temps les plus reculés jusqu'à nos jours, avec les renseignements bibliographiques et l'indication des sources à consulter: Phi-Pre (in French). Firmin Didot fréres, fils et cie. 1862. p. 776. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
2. Sainte-Marie, Anselme de (1890). Histoire généalogique et chronologique de la Maison de France (in French). Firmin-Didot. p. 433. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
3. Lelong, Eugène Philippe (1900). Conseil de commerce et Bureau du commerce 1700-1791: Inventaire analytique des procès-verbaux (in French). Imprimerie nationale. p. lviii. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
4. Delavaud, Louis Charles Marie (1910). Documents inédits sur le duc de Saint-Simon (1694-1746) (in French). Impr. nouvelle N. Texier. p. 7. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
5. La duchesse de Bourgogne et l'alliance savoyarde, sous Louis XIV: la réconciliation, avec la Savoie et le mariage de la duchesse de Bourgogne (in French). Calman Lévy. 1898. p. 168. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
6. Luçay, Hélion de (1881). Des origines du pouvoir ministériel en France: Les secrétaires d'état depuis leur institution jusqu'a la mort de Louis XV (in French). Librairie de la société bibliographique. p. 599. Retrieved 16 February 2024.
7. Pritchard, James (28 September 1995). Anatomy of a Naval Disaster: The 1746 French Expedition to North America. McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP. p. 29. ISBN 978-0-7735-6553-1. Retrieved 16 February 2024.

Political offices
Preceded by Louis Phélypeaux	Secretary of State for the Navy 6 September 1699 - 1 October 1715	Succeeded by Louis Alexandre de Bourbon, comte de Toulouse