Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie
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Jacques-Joachim Trotti, marquis de La Chétardie (3 October 1705 – 1 January 1759) was a French
Elizaveta Petrovna to the Russian throne in 1741. In the course of his eventful career, La Chetardie was sent on diplomatic errands throughout Europe: in London (1727), then in Holland and Prussia, in Russia twice, and finally in Turin in 1749 in the company of Jean-Louis Favier
.
Elizaveta
the new Empress.
Upon her accession to the throne, she awarded La Chetardie with the
Chancellor Bestuzhev
.
In 1743 La Chetardie was again in the Russian capital, clamoring for attention from the Empress and busily intriguing with Elizabeth of Holstein (Catherine II's mother) and Lestocq against Bestuzhev. Their correspondence was intercepted by the latter's agents and divulged to the Empress, who ordered the intriguer to be expelled from the country. The disgruntled Louis XV had him immured in the citadel of Montpellier. Upon his release, La Chetardie took part in the Battle of Rossbach and served as the castellan of Hanau, where he died.
Further reading and references
- This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary (in Russian). 1906.
{{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - Joseph Fitzgerald Molloy. The Russian Court in the Eighteenth Century. Hutchinson, 1905.
External links
- La Chetardie's secret correspondence online (in Russian)
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