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Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, Count of Maurepas (9 July 1701 – 21 November 1781) was a French statesman and Count of Maurepas. Biography. Early years. Portrait of a young Maurepas. He was born at Versailles, of a family of administrative nobility, the son of Jérôme Phélypeaux, secretary of state for the marine and the royal household.
Print, full-length portrait of Jean Frédéric Phelypeaux, Count of Maurepas, engraving by Gilles Edmé Petit after Louis-Michel van Loo, 1736.
Sep 17, 2024 · Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, count de Maurepas (born July 9, 1701, Versailles, France—died Sept. 21, 1781, Versailles) was the secretary of state under King Louis XV and chief royal adviser during the first seven years of the reign of King Louis XVI.
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Scope and Contents The Jean Frédéric Phélypeaux, Comte de Maurepas Papers are comprised of one box containing, for the most part, secretary's copies of documents made for Maurepas' use, the majority of which concern his duties as Minister of Marine. Maurepas was responsible for building up the Royal Navy to meet the threat from the expansion of British sea power; he also instituted changes ...
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Biography. Statesman, son of Jérôme Phélypeaux (q.v.); secretary of state for the marine at the age of fourteen (1715) and the royal household at the age of seventeen (1718); deprived of his functions and exiled from Paris in 1749 because of an epigram against Madame de Pompadour, Louis XV's mistress, but returned as Minister of State to ...
