Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Saint-Florentin

Louis Phélypeaux (18 August 1705 – 27 February 1777) Count of Saint-Florentin, Marquis (1725) and Duke of La Vrillière (1770), was a French politician.

Louis Phélypeaux
Count of Saint-Florentin & Duke of La Vrillière
Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi
In office
1749 – 1775
MonarchsLouis XV (to 1774)
Louis XVI (from 1774)
Preceded byJean-Frédéric Phélypeaux
Succeeded byGuillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes
Minister for Foreign Affairs
In office
24 December 1770 – 6 June 1771
MonarchLouis XV
Preceded byÉtienne François de Choiseul
Succeeded byEmmanuel-Armand de Richelieu
Acting Secretary of State for War
In office
24 December 1770 – 4 January 1771
MonarchLouis XV
Preceded byÉtienne François de Choiseul
Succeeded byLouis François de Monteynard
Personal details
Born(1705-08-18)18 August 1705
Paris, Isle-de-France, Kingdom of France
Died27 February 1777(1777-02-27) (aged 71)
Paris, Isle-de-France, Kingdom of France

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Son of Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis de La Vrillière, and Françoise de Mailly-Nesle (1688–1742), he succeeded his father as Secretary of State for Protestant Affairs, with responsibility for Huguenots. Appointed minister for the Department of the Maison du Roi by Louis XV in 1749, he held the post until 1775, setting a record for ministerial service. He was named to the Order of the Holy Spirit, where he served as chancellor. After the dismissal of Choiseul in December 1770, he served as Foreign Minister until June 1771. His use of lettres de cachet in the La Chalotais case was controversial and he resigned his ministerial posts in 1775.

In 1724 he married Amélie Ernestine de Platen (d. 1752). He had Chalgrin design the Hôtel de Saint-Florentin. This later passed to Talleyrand and to James Mayer de Rothschild, and is now part of the American Embassy, Paris.

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