Michel le Tellier

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Michel le Tellier

Michel le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville et de Viroflay (19 April 1603 - 30 October 1685) was a French

France

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statesman

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.

ellier was born in Paris

Paris

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. Having entered the public service he became maître des requêtes
Maître des requêtes

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and in 1640 intendant of Piedmont. In 1643, owing to his friendship with Mazarin, he became secretary of state for military affairs, being an efficient administrator.

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Michel le Tellier, marquis de Barbezieux, seigneur de Chaville et de Viroflay (19 April 1603 - 30 October 1685) was a French

France

Statesman

Biography

Le Tellier was born in Paris

Paris

Fronde

The Fronde was a civil war in France, occurring in the midst of the Franco-Spanish War , which had begun in 1635. The word fronde means sling , with which the windows of supporters of Jules Cardinal Mazarin were broken with stones by Parisian Crowds....
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In 1677 he was made chancellor of France and he was one of those who influenced Louis XIV

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to revoke the Edict of Nantes

Edict of Nantes

The Edict of Nantes was issued on 13 April 1598 by Henry IV of France to grant the Calvinism Protestants of France substantial rights in a nation still considered essentially Catholicism....
. He died a few days after the revocation had been signed.

Le Tellier, who amassed great wealth, left two sons, one the famous statesman Louvois

François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois

Fran?ois Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois , was the France Secretary of State for War for a significant part of the reign of Louis XIV of France....
and another, Charles Maurice Le Tellier, who became archbishop of Reims

Archbishop of Reims

The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Reims is an archdiocese of the Latin Rite of the Roman Catholic church in France. Erected as a diocese around 250 by Sixtus of Reims, the diocese was elevated to an archdiocese around 750....
. His correspondence is in the Bibliothéque Nationale in Paris.