Germain Louis Chauvelin
Germain Louis Chauvelin (26 March 1685 – 1 April 1762,
Life
Germain Louis Chauvelin came from a family of lawyers to the
On 1 November 1706, Germain Louis Chauvelin was given the joint offices of councillor to the
- Claude Louis (1718–1750), marquis de Grosbois, died without issue ;
- Anne Espérance (°1725), who married (1) (1747) Henri René François Édouard Colbert de Maulévrier (†1748) and then (2) (1763) the chevalier des Acres de L'Aigle ;
- Anne Madeleine (°1727), who married (1748) Louis-Michel Chamillart (1709–1774), comte de La Suze ;
- Anne Sabine Rosalie (°1732), who married (1752) Jean François de La Rochefoucauld (1735–1789), vicomte de La Rochefoucauld, marquis de Surgères.
The
As Garde des sceaux, Chauvelin had to share his powers with
As foreign secretary, Chauvelin was very hostile to Austria, continually seeking to set Spain against Austria. The peace-loving Fleury was often involved in secret negotiations, such as the 1735 preliminaries in Vienna, which subordinated peace to resolution of the Lorraine question - by secret negotiations, Fleury got François de Lorraine to renounce his claim, with Chauvelin only intervening to defeat the last remnants of Austrian resistance. Fleury no longer needed Chauvelin so on 20 February 1737 the latter was dismissed and taken to his
Bibliography
- (in French) Arnaud de Maurepas, Antoine Boulant, Les ministres et les ministères du siècle des Lumières (1715-1789). Etude et dictionnaire, Paris, Christian-JAS, 1996, 452 p.
- (in French) Jean de Viguerie, Histoire et dictionnaire du temps des Lumières, ISBN 2-221-04810-5
- (in French) Alix Bréban, Germain Louis Chauvelin (1685-1762), ministre de Louis XV, thesis from the École des chartes, 2004 (résumé)
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