Henri Philippe de Chauvelin (1714–1770) was a French cleric and politician. He was a canon of

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and a councillor to the

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. Known as the ''Abbé de Chauvelin'', he was the youngest son of

Germain Louis Chauvelin Germain Louis Chauvelin (26 March 1685 – 1 April 1762, Paris), marquis de Grosbois, was a French politician, serving as garde des sceaux and Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs under Louis XV. Life Germain Louis Chauvelin came from a family ...

and thus a brother of marquis

François Claude Chauvelin François Claude Bernard Louis de Chauvelin (Paris, 1716 – Versailles, 1773), marquis de Chauvelin, was a French soldier, diplomat and writer. He was a correspondent of Voltaire. One of his three children with his wife Agnés Thérèse Mazade ...

. He ardently attacked the

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and defended

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, leading to his imprisonment on

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in 1763. When he was released, he continued to struggle against the Jesuits and in 1761 published two works which had a major impact -''Discours sur les

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des Jésuites'' and ''Compte rendu sur la doctrine des Jésuites''. This allowed him to get the Parlement of Paris to

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the Jesuits from France.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chauvelin, Henri Philippe 1714 births 1770 deaths Abbés Jansenists French politicians French male writers