Charles-Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau de Morville

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Charles-Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau de Morville (born October 30, 1686 in Paris ; † February 2, 1732 ibid) was a French statesman and member of the Académie française .

life and work

Charles-Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau Count of Morville was the son of Joseph-Jean-Baptiste Fleuriau d'Armenonville (1661-1728), minister under the regent Philippe II. De Bourbon, duc d'Orléans , the nephew of Louis-Gaston Fleuriau d'Armenonville (1662–1733), Bishop of Orléans and the father-in-law of Alexandre-Nicolas de La Rochefoucauld (1709–1760), Marquis de Surgères.

After successfully serving as ambassador to the Netherlands, he took over the Ministry of the Navy from his father in 1722 and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs from Guillaume Dubois in 1723 , which he held until 1727. Without presenting any special writings, he was elected to the Académie française (seat no. 12) in 1723. From 1726 he was the royal patron ( protecteur ) of the Academy of Bordeaux .

In 1728 he built Morville Castle in Hanches near Épernon . There (and in Paris) he founded an amateur theater company, the Société de Morville , to which Count Caylus , Charles-Antoine Coypel , Charles Pinot Duclos and others belonged and which lasted beyond his untimely death. He also put on an important collection of paintings. When he died in 1732 at the age of 45, he was for the Paris church of Saint-Eustache by Edme Bouchardon designed a memorial and created a commemorative sheet of Caylus and Coypel to the Charles-Jean-François Hénault the text written.

literature

  • Dominique Quéro: "Note bibliographique sur le comte de Caylus et le" théâtre du château de Morville ". In: Revue d'histoire littéraire de la France 101, 2001, pp. 147-190. [1]
  • Joachim Rees : The culture of the amateur. Studies on the life and work of Anne Claude Philippe de Thubières, Comte de Caylus (1692–1765) . VDG, Weimar 2007, pp. 187–188.

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personal data
SURNAME Fleuriau de Morville, Charles-Jean-Baptiste
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French statesman and member of the Académie française
DATE OF BIRTH October 30, 1686
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 2, 1732
Place of death Paris