Nicolas Prosper Bauyn, seigneur d’

Angervilliers Angervilliers () is a commune in the Essonne department in Île-de-France in northern France. Inhabitants are known as ''Angervilliérois''. See also *Communes of the Essonne department The following is a list of the 194 communes of the Es ...

(15 January 1675 – 15 February 1740) was a French politician. He served as intendant de Dauphiné, intendant d'Alsace, and finally as

Secretary of State for War The secretary of state for war, commonly called the war secretary, was a secretary of state in the Government of the United Kingdom, which existed from 1794 to 1801 and from 1854 to 1964. The secretary of state for war headed the War Offic ...

from July 1728 until his death.

Life

The son of a fermier général, Prosper Bauyn d'Angervilliers was intendant of the

généralité ''Recettes générales'', commonly known as ''généralités'' (), were the administrative divisions of France under the Ancien Régime and are often considered to prefigure the current '' préfectures''. At the time of the French Revolution, ther ...

of Alençon (1702–1705), then intendant of Dauphiné (1705–1716), of Alsace (1716–1724) and finally of Paris (1724–1728). An experienced administrator, the

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made him secretary of state for war on the death of

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. In that post, he reorganised the

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and carried out preparations for the

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. In order not to be reliant on imports,

Louis XV Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved (), was King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defi ...

had Angervilliers put in charge of setting up a white-metal factory to equip the army with swords and bayonets - this was set up in Klingenthal (Alsace) in 1730.

References

1675 births 1740 deaths Secretaries of State for War (France) {{france-politician-stub