Camille Le Tellier de Louvois (11 April 1675 – 5 November 1718) was a French

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and member of several royal academies in the reign of

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. He was the fourth member elected to occupy seat 4 of the Académie française in 1706. He was born in

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, the fourth son of François Michel Le Tellier de Louvois. He received a doctorate from the

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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

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. He was a member of the

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, of the

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and, from 1706, of the Académie française where he replaced Jean Testu de Mauroy.

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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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