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CHAMILLART See also:MICHEL (1652–1721) , See also:French statesman, See also:minister of See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XIV., was See also:born at See also:Paris of a See also:family of the noblesse of See also:recent See also:elevation. Following the usual career of a statesman of his See also:- TIME (0. Eng. Lima, cf. Icel. timi, Swed. timme, hour, Dan. time; from the root also seen in " tide," properly the time of between the flow and ebb of the sea, cf. O. Eng. getidan, to happen, " even-tide," &c.; it is not directly related to Lat. tempus)
- TIME, MEASUREMENT OF
- TIME, STANDARD
time he became in turn councillor of the See also:parlement of Paris (1676), See also:master of See also:requests (1686), and See also:intendant of the generality of See also:Rouen (See also:January 1689). Affable, of polished See also:manners, modest and honest, Chamillart won the confidence of Madame de See also:Maintenon and pleased the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king. In 1690 he was made intendant of finances, and on the 5th of See also:September 1699 the king appointed him controller-See also:general of finances, to which he added on the following 7th of January the See also:ministry of See also:war. From the first Chamillart's position was a difficult one. The deficit amounted to more than 53 million livres, and the See also:credit of the See also:state was almost exhausted. He lacked the See also:great intelligence and See also:energy necessary for the situation, and was unable to moderate the king's warlike tastes, or to inaugurate economic reforms. He could only employ the usual expedients of the time—the immoderate See also:sale of offices, the debasement of the coinage (five times in six years), reduction of the See also:rate of See also:interest on state debts, and increased See also:taxation. He attempted to force into circulation a See also:kind of See also:paper See also:money, billets de monnaie, but with disastrous results owing to the state of credit. He studied See also:Vauban's project for the royal tithe and. Boisguillebert's See also:pro-position for the See also:taille, but did not adopt them. In See also:October 1706 he showed the king that the debts immediately due amounted to 288 millions, and that the deficit already foreseen for 1707 was 16o millions. In October 1707 he saw with consternation that the See also:revenue for 1708 was already entirely eaten up by anticipation, so that neither money nor credit remained for 1708. In these conditions Chamillart, who had often complained of the overwhelming See also:burden he was carrying, and who had already wished to retire in 1706, resigned his See also:- OFFICE (from Lat. officium, " duty," " service," a shortened form of opifacium, from facere, " to do," and either the stem of opes, " wealth," " aid," or opus, " work ")
office of controller-general. Public See also:opinion attributed to him the ruin of the See also:country, though pe had tried in 1700 to improve the See also:condition of See also:commerce by the creation of a See also:council of commerce. As secretary of state for war he had to See also:place in the See also:- FIELD (a word common to many West German languages, cf. Ger. Feld, Dutch veld, possibly cognate with O.E. f olde, the earth, and ultimately with root of the Gr. irAaror, broad)
- FIELD, CYRUS WEST (1819-1892)
- FIELD, DAVID DUDLEY (18o5-1894)
- FIELD, EUGENE (1850-1895)
- FIELD, FREDERICK (18o1—1885)
- FIELD, HENRY MARTYN (1822-1907)
- FIELD, JOHN (1782—1837)
- FIELD, MARSHALL (183 1906)
- FIELD, NATHAN (1587—1633)
- FIELD, STEPHEN JOHNSON (1816-1899)
- FIELD, WILLIAM VENTRIS FIELD, BARON (1813-1907)
field the See also:army for the War of the See also:Spanish See also:Succession, and to reorganize it three times, after the great defeats of 1704, 1706 and 1708. With an empty See also:treasury he succeeded only in See also:part, and he frankly warned the king that the enemy would soon be able to dictate the terms of See also:peace. He was reproached with having secured the command of the army which besieged See also:Turin (1706) for his son-in-See also:law, the incapable duc de la Feuillade. Madame de Maintenon even became hostile to him, and he abandoned his position on the loth of See also:June 1709, retiring to his estates. He died on the 14th of See also:April 1721.
Chamillart's papers have been published by G. Esnault, Michel Chamillart, contreleur general et secretaire d'etat de la guerre, correspondance et pa piers inedits (2 vols., Paris, 1885) ; and by A. de Bois-See also:lisle in vol. 2 of his Correspondance See also:des controleurs generaux (1883). See D'Auvigny, Vies des hommes See also:illustres (1739),tome vi. pp. 288-402 ; E. Moret, Quinze annees du reine de Louis XIV (Paris, 1851); and the new edition of the Memoires de St-See also:Simon, by A. de Boislisle.
End of Article: CHAMILLART MICHEL (1652–1721)
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