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Originally appearing in Volume V21, Page 363 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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PHELYPEAUX , a See also:

French See also:family of Blesois. Its two See also:principal branches were those of the siegneurs of Herbault, La Vrilliere and See also:Saint Florentin, and of the See also:counts of Pontchartrain and See also:Maurepas. Raimond Phelypeaux, seigneur of Herbault and La Vrilliere (d: 1629), was treasurer of the Epargne in 1599, and became secretary of See also:state in 1621. His son See also:Louis succeeded him in this latter See also:office, and died in 1681. Balthazar Phelypeaux, See also:marquis de See also:Chateauneuf (d. 1700), and Louis, marquis de La Vrilliere (d. 1725), respectively son and See also:grandson of Louis, were also secretaries of state. Louis Phelypeaux (1705-1777), See also:count of Saint Florentin and afterwards See also:duke of La Vrilliere (1770), succeeded his See also:father as secretary of state; became See also:minister of the See also:king's See also:household in 1749, a minister of state in 1751, and discharged the functions of minister of See also:foreign affairs on the disgrace of See also:Choiseul (1770). He incurred See also:great unpopularity by his abuse of lettres de cachet, and had to resign in 1775. Raimond Balthazar Phelypeaux, seigneur du See also:Verger, a member of the La Vrilliere See also:branch, was sent as See also:ambassador to See also:Savoy in 1700, where he discovered the intrigues of the duke of Savoy, See also:Victor Amadeus II., against See also:France; and when See also:war was declared he was kept a See also:close prisoner by the duke (1703-1704). At the See also:time of his See also:death (1713) he was See also:governor-See also:general in the See also:West Indies. The branch of Pontchartrain-Maurepas was founded by See also:Paul Phelypeaux (1569-1621), See also:brother of the first-mentioned Raimond; he became secretary of state in 16zo.

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