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LAMOIGNON

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LAMOIGNON , a See also:

French See also:family, which takes its name from Lamoignon, a See also:place said to have been in its See also:possession since the 13th See also:century. One of its several branches is that of Lamoignon de See also:Malesherbes. Several of the Lamoignons have played important parts in the See also:history of See also:France and the family has been specially distinguished in the legal profession. See also:GUILLAUME DE LAMOIGNON (1617-1677), attained See also:eminence as a lawyer and became See also:president of the See also:parlement of See also:Paris in 1658. First on the popular, and later on the royalist See also:side during the See also:Fronde, he presided at the earlier sittings of the trial of See also:Fouquet, whom he regarded as See also:innocent, and he was associated with See also:Colbert, whom he was able more than once to thwart. Lamoignon tried to simplify the See also:laws of France and sought the society of men of letters like Boileau and See also:Racine. Having received See also:rich rewards for his public services, he died in Paris on the loth of See also:December 1677. Guillaume's second son, NICOLASDELAMOIGNON (1648-1724), took the surname of Basville. Following his hereditary calling he filled many public offices, serving as intend-See also:ant of See also:Montauban, of See also:Pau, of See also:Poitiers and of See also:Languedoc before his retirement in 1718. His See also:administration of Languedoc was chiefly remarkable for vigorous See also:measures against the See also:Camisards and other Protestants, but in other directions his See also:work in the See also:south of France was more beneficent, as, following the example of Colbert, he encouraged See also:agriculture and See also:industry generally and did something towards improving the means of communication. He wrote a 111enaoire, which contains much interesting See also:information about his public work. This was published at See also:Amsterdam in 1724.

Lamoignon, who is called by See also:

Saint See also:Simon, " the See also:king and See also:tyrant of Languedoc," died in Paris on the 17th of May 1724. CHRETIEN See also:FRANCOIS DE LAMOIGNON (1735–1789) entered public See also:life at an See also:early See also:age and was an actor in the troubles which heralded the Revolution. First on the side of the parlement and later on that of the king he was one of the assistants of Lomenie de Brienne, whose unpopularity and fall he shared. He committed See also:suicide on the 15th of May 1789.

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