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NICOLAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOLAY  , the name of a

French
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family of Vivarais which came rapidly into legal prominence at the end of the 15th century .
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Jean Nicolay (d . 1527), son of a bailli of Bourg Saint-Andeol, became councillor at the parlement of Toulouse and afterwards at the
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Grand Council, chancellor of the
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kingdom of Naples, Maitre
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des Requetes, and, finally, first president of the Chambre des Comptes of Paris (15o6) . This last
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post was filled continuously up to the Revolution by his descendants . Antoine Chretien de Nicolay (1712–1777) became marshal of France in 1775 . His
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brother, Aymar Chretien Francois Michel (1721–1769), bishop of
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Verdun, was first almoner of
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Marie Josephe of Saxony, wife of the dauphin Louis (d . 1765), and her influential counsellor . See A. de Boislisle, Pieces justificatives pour servir a l'histoire des premiers presidents de la Chambre des Comptes (1873), and Histoire de la niaison de Nicolay (1875) .

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