Camille Le Tellier de Louvois (11 April 1675 – 5 November 1718) was a French
clergyman
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and member of several royal academies in the reign of
Louis XIV of France
, house = Bourbon
, father = Louis XIII
, mother = Anne of Austria
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, birth_place = Château de Saint-Germain-en-Laye, Saint-Germain-en-Laye, France
, death_date =
, death_place = Palace of Versa ...
. He was the fourth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the
Académie française
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in 1706.
He was born in
Paris
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, the fourth son of
François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois
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People with the given name
* Francis I of France, King of France (), known as "the Father and Restorer of Letters"
* Francis II of France, Kin ...
. He received a doctorate from the
Sorbonne
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*the University of Paris (c. 1150 – 1970)
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at the age of 25. He served as curator of the ''cabinet des médailles'', that is of coins and medals, at the
royal library at the
Louvre
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. He was a member of the
Academy of Sciences
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, of the
Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
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and, from 1706, of the
Académie française
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where he replaced
Jean Testu de Mauroy Jean Testu de Mauroy (1626, Paris – April 1706, Paris) was a French clergyman and academic. He was the member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1688.
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Luc-Normand Tellier
Luc-Normand Tellier (born October 10, 1944) is a Professor Emeritus in spatial economics of the University of Quebec at Montreal.
Education and teaching
After teaching for two years (1964–1966) at the Collège Saint-André of Kigali, Rwanda, ...
, ''Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme'', Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987, 816 page
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1675 births
1718 deaths
Clergy from Paris
Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres
Members of the Académie Française
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
University of Paris alumni