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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. 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 ...
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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The Maurepas Collection. at Cornell University. 1694-1749. Jean-Fréderic Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas (1701-1781), served for twenty-six years as France's Secretary of the Navy and thirty-four years as Secretary of the Royal Household of Louis XV.
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Phelypeaux family fortunes but to review the achievements of the last great Phelypeaux minister of the colonies, Jean-Frederic, comte de Pontchartrain and Maurepas, to reflect upon his interest in the New World, and to comment upon the sale of certain of his family papers at the Parke-Bernet Galleries in 1962.
