Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou (, 30 April 1689 – 7 May 1749,
Paris
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) was a French politician. He was marquis of Combrande, baron de
Châtillon-sur-Indre, seigneur de Chaillou.
Biography
From a family of magistrates, he was in turn made avocat général aux requêtes de la
maison du roi,
maître des requêtes
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The occupational title ...
ordinaires (1712), intendant of the
généralité
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of
La Rochelle
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(1720–26),
intendant des finances
The Intendants des finances were intendants or agents of France's financial administration under the Ancien Régime.
History
The role of intendant des finances was created in 1552 as a 'commission' or committee, to manage the subsidies raised for ...
(1726),
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs
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(1737–44) and surintendant des Postes (1737).
He was elected to the
Académie française
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en 1727 et membre honoraire de l'
Académie des sciences
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in 1741.
In 1716 he married the daughter of the businessman and theatre head
Gio Paolo Bombarda
Gio Paolo Bombarda (Rome, c.1650 – Paris, 6 December 1712) was the founder of the Théâtre de la Monnaie in Brussels.
Life
Musician, councillor and treasurer to Maximilian II Emanuel, Elector of Bavaria in Munich, he was taken on by the court ...
- she died three years later. His child by his second marriage was
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou (19 November 1732 – 20 April 1795, the 1st of Floréal in year III of the Revolutionary calendar) was a French politician.
The son of Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou and Marie Anne de Vougny, he held a number o ...
.
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Académie française
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1689 births
1747 deaths
French Foreign Ministers
Members of the Académie Française
Members of the French Academy of Sciences
Secretaries of State of Ancien Régime France