Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou
Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou (19 November 1732 – 20 April 1795, the 1st of
Revolutionary calendar
) was a French politician.
The son of Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou and Marie Anne de Vougny, he held a number of positions throughout his political career. He was a
Bourgogne in 1764, intendant of finances in 1774, Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi from May 12, 1776, to November 18, 1783.[1] He was a commander of the Order of the Saint-Esprit
.
He married Françoise Marie Legendre and the couple had two daughters, Marie Catherine (born 1762) and Jeanne Marie (born 1764) who became "comtesse de La Ferté" through marriage.
Amelot de Chaillou became an honorary member of the
Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres
in 1777.
Amelot de Chaillou was arrested, like many nobles, in 1792 and he died in the Luxembourg prison in 1795; his son, Antoine Léon, the intendant of Bourgogne from 1783 to 1790 made it through the Revolution mostly unscathed.[2]
References
- ISBN 0521827671.
- . Retrieved 26 February 2018.
- This article is based on a translation of the article Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou from the French Wikipedia on 30 August 2006.
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