Charles Marie François Olier, marquis de Nointel
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Charles-Marie-François Olier, marquis de Nointel
Early life
Nointel, born and bred in Paris, came of a family of the
Returned to France, he was made a councillor to the Parlement of Paris.
Ambassador
His appointment as ambassador, after a successful campaign by his friends, combined political and commercial expectations. The embassy was to reopen strained relations with the
The embassy was fitted out with unusual grandeur and accompanied by four
The embassy fleet left from Toulon, 21 August 1670.
By June 1673 he had achieved a reduction in customs charges, putting France on an equal footing with England and Holland and giving new life to French commerce in the
In September 1673 he made a tour to enregister these new prerogatives; it took him to
From his tour in the East he made precious acquisitions of coins and medals, marbles and other Antiquities, occurring such debts in the process that Louis XIV, unwilling to pay them, recalled him in 1680.
In culture
In 2018 in Paris during renovation works in the building rented by Alex Bolen for Oscar de la Renta boutique (4, Rue de Marignan [fr]) were discovered hand-painted ceiling and then a painting of Marquis de Nointel entering the city of Jerusalem created by Arnould de Vuez in 1674. It was reproduced as a rotogravure in the 1900 book by Albert Vandal Odyssey of an Ambassador: The Travels of the Marquis de Nointel, 1670-1680. The artwork glued to the wall was hidden during Occupation of Paris probably. Due to an agreement with the building's owners the painting will remain at its place while the store was a tenant (the initial lease is for 10 years) while the company will restore it. [14]
See also
Notes
- ^ Vandal, 1900, p. 113
- ^ The Treasure Behind the Wall, by Vanessa Friedman, Jan. 21, 2019, The New York Times: they write that it is by Arnould de Vuez, and not Jacques Carrey
- ^ He bore the additional title of marquis de Angervilliers.
- ^ A. Vandal, L'Odyssée d'un Ambassadeur: Les voyages du marquis de Nointel (1670-1680), 1900.
- ^ Vandal 1900: 37.
- Abbaye aux Bois.
- ^ They began with the coronation of Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor, in July 1658.
- ^ Coulanges, Mémoires de M. de Coulanges: suivis de lettres inédites de madame de Sévigné... 1820, noted in Vandel 1900:38
- ^ In 1661 or 1668, according to the contrary documentation (Vandal 1900:39 and note
- ^ Vandel identifies him as "un des directeurs de la Compagnie des Indes, le sieur Magy" (Vandal 1900:50); Paul Masson, Histoire du commerce français dans le Levant au XVIIe siècle"l'un des plus célèbres marchands de Marseille au XVIIe siècle", noting a memoire presented to the court in 1685, Mémoire de M. Magy (de la Compagnie du Levant) arch. Nat. F12,645..
- ^ Edited by Schefer (Vandal 1900:48)
- ^ Conder and Kitchener, 1883, SWP III, p. 61
- ^ Pringle, 1993, p. 32
- ^ Vanessa Friedman. The Treasure Behind the Wall // The New York Times, Jan. 21, 2019
Bibliography
- Conder, C.R.; Kitchener, H.H. (1883). The Survey of Western Palestine: Memoirs of the Topography, Orography, Hydrography, and Archaeology. Vol. 3. London: Committee of the Palestine Exploration Fund.
- Vandal, A. (1900). L'Odyssée d'un Ambassadeur: Les voyages du marquis de Nointel (1670-1680). Paris: Plon-Nourrit.
- ISBN 0-521-39036-2.