See also:

• COMTE, AUGUSTE [ISIDORE AUGUSTE MARIE FRANCOIS XAVIER] (1798-1857)

COMTE DE See also:

• JEAN

JEAN See also:

• FREDERIC, HAROLD (1856-1898)

FREDERIC See also:

• PHELYPEAUX

PHELYPEAUX See also:

• COMTE DE JEAN FREDERIC PHELYPEAUX MAUREPAS (1701-1781)

MAUREPAS (1701-1781)  , See also:

• FRENCH
• FRENCH, DANIEL CHESTER (1850– )
• FRENCH, NICHOLAS (1604-1678)

French statesman, was See also:

• BORN, IGNAZ, EDLER VON (1742–1791)

born on the 9th of See also:

• JULY

July 1701 at See also:

• VERSAILLES

Versailles, being the son of See also:

• JEROME, JEROME KLAPKA (1859– )
• JEROME, ST (HIERONYMUS, in full EUSEBIUS SOPHRONIUS HIERONYMUS) (c. 340–420)

Jerome de Pontchartrain, secretary of See also:

• STATE
• STATE, GREAT OFFICERS OF

state for the marine and the royal See also:

• HOUSEHOLD, ROYAL

household . See also:

• MAUREPAS, JEAN FREDERIC PHELYPEAUX, COMTE DE (1701-1781)

Maurepas succeeded to his See also:

• FATHER

father's See also:

• CHARGE
• CHARGE (through the Fr. from the Late Lat. carricare, to load in a carrus or wagon; cf. " cargo ")

charge at fourteen, and began his functions in the royal household at seventeen, while in 1725 he undertook the actual See also:

• ADMINISTRATION (Lat. administrare, to serve)

administration of the See also:

• NAVY

navy . Although essentially See also:

• LIGHT

light and frivolous in See also:

• CHARACTER (Gr. xapareri7p, from xap&crew, to scratch)

character, Maurepas was seriously interested in scientific matters, and he used the best brains of See also:

• FRANCE
• FRANCE, ANATOLE (1844– )

France to apply See also:

• SCIENCE (Lat. scientia, from scire; to learn, know)

science to questions of See also:

• NAVIGATION (from Lat. navis, ship, and agere, to move)

navigation and of See also:

• NAVAL

naval construction . He was disgraced in 1749, and exiled from See also:

• PARIS
• PARIS (also called ALEXANDROS)
• PARIS, ALEXIS PAULIN (1800-x881)
• PARIS, BRUNO PAULIN GASTON (1839-1903)
• PARIS, FRANCOIS DE (169o-1727)
• PARIS, LOUIS PHILIPPE ALBERT
• PARIS, TREATIES OF (1814-1815)

Paris for an See also:

• EPIGRAM

epigram against Madame de See also:

• POMPADOUR, JEANNE ANTOINETTE POISSON LE NORMANT

Pompadour . On the See also:

• ACCESSION (from Lat. accedere, to go to, to approach)

accession of See also:

• LOUIS
• LOUIS (804–876)
• LOUIS (893–911)
• LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
• LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian

Louis XVI., twenty-five years later, he became a See also:

• MINISTER (Lat. minister, servant)

minister of state and Louis XVI.'s See also:

• CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief adviser . He gave See also:

• TURGOT, ANNE ROBERT JACQUES, BARON DE

Turgot the direction of See also:

• FINANCE

finance, placed See also:

• LAMOIGNON

Lamoignon-See also:

• MALESHERBES, CHRETIEN GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON DE (1721-1794)

Malesherbes over the royal household and made See also:

• VERGENNES, CHARLES GRAVIER, COMTE DE (1717-1787)

Vergennes minister for See also:

• FOREIGN

foreign affairs . At the outset of his new career he showed his weakness by recalling to their functions, in deference to popular clamour, the members of the old See also:

• PARLEMENT (see PARLIAMENT)

parlement ousted by See also:

• MAUPEOU, RENE NICOLAS CHARLES AUGUSTIN (1714-1792)

Maupeou, thus re-constituting the most dangerous enemy of the royal See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power . This step, and his intervention on behalf of the See also:

• AMERICAN

American states, helped to pave the way for the French revolution . Jealous of his See also:

• PERSONAL

personal ascendancy over Louis XVI., he intrigued against Turgot, whose disgrace in 1776 was followed after six months of disorder by the See also:

• APPOINTMENT, POWER OF

appointment of See also:

• NECKER, JACQUES (1732—1804)

Necker . In 1781 Maurepas deserted Necker as he had done Turgot, and he died at Versailles on the 21st of See also:

• NOVEMBER (Lat. novem, nine)

November 1781 . Maurepas is credited with contributions to the collection of facetiae known as the Etrennes de la See also:

• SAINT (lat. sanctus, " holy ")

Saint See also:

• JEAN

Jean (2nd ed., 1742) . Four volumes of Memoires de Maurepas, purporting to be collected by his secretary and edited by J .

L . G . Soulavie in 1792, must be regarded as apocryphal . Some of his letters were published in 1896 by the See also:

• SOC

Soc. de l'hist. de Paris . His eloge in the See also:

• ACADEMY, GREEK
• ACADEMY, ROYAL

Academy of Sciences was pronounced by See also:

• CONDORCET, MARIE JEAN ANTOINE NICOLAS CARITAT, MARQUIS DE (1743-1794)

Condorcet .