KING LOUIS XV SIGNED ORDER TO BERNARD CLUGNY INTENDANT OF THE NAVY OF BREST 1767

Description: KING LOUIS XV Military Order Appointing Sir Jacques La Biche as a Second Surgeon at the Port of Brest signed on April 1, 1767Countersigned by Cezar Gabriel de Choiseul, duke de Praslin - Secretary of State for the Navy of the King Louis XV from 1766 to 1770Size: 14" x 9.3" (37.6 cm x 24 cm) , Watermarked and Signed "By Par Le Roy His Majesty has chosen Seigneur Jacques La Biche to recognize him as a second Surgeon at the Port of Brest and on the Ships and other ........of his Majesty: .............. Seigneur de Clugny Intendant of the navy in Brest to employ him in the Quality on the States of .....Surgeons in the PortDone at Versailles on April 1, 1767" Clugny de Nuits was Intendant of the Colonies in Santo Domingo (1760-1764), later Intendant of the Navy in Brest (1765-1770), Intendant of Roussillon in Perpignan (1773-1774) and Intendant of Guyena in Bordeaux (1775-1776). In all the positions he held, he distinguished himself by his competence, especially in the case of epidemics. However, his private customs were a cause for scandal, since he lived with his three sisters, who were said to be also his lovers.César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin (15 August 1712 – 15 November 1785) was a French officer, diplomat and statesman. On 30 April 1732, he married Anne Marie de Champagne de Villaines de la Suze. After having served in the Army, he was appointed in 1756 ambassador in Vienna to Emperor Francis I andQueen Maria Theresa of Hungary. In 1761, he was plenipotentiary to the Augsburg Convention. From 13 October 1761 to 8 April 1766, he served as Secretary of State (mini for Foreign Affairs, replacing in this office his cousin Etienne de Choiseul (who became in 1763 Secretary of State for War and for Navy). He was lieutenant general of César Gabriel de Choiseul, duc de Praslin the Armies. In 1763, he was made duke of Praslin and peer of France. He negotiated the peace that ended the Seven Years; War and was Louis XV’s plenipotentiary for the conclusion of the Treaty of Paris, which he signed, on 10 February 1763.From 10 April 1766 to 24 December 1770, he served as Secretary of State for the Navy (his cousin Étienne then taking back the department of Foreign Affairs in addition to that of War). During histerm in office, he restored the strength of the Navy, which had been severely damaged during the Seven Years' War. After the death, in 1764, of Madame de Pompadour, who had been their protector, the position of César Gabriel and his cousin Étienne was undermined. He fell from grace in Louis XV's court and withdrew from public affairs in 1770, at the height of the Falkland Crisis involving Britain and Spain. He was replaced at the Navy by Abbe Terray.His titles included marquis of Choiseul, count of Chevigny and of La Rivière, viscount of Melun and of Vaux, baron of La Flèche and of Giry, lord of Chassy. He was made a knight of the Order of theHoly Spirit on 1 January 1762. He was made an honorary member of the Academy of Sciences on 15 December 1769. Praslin Island, one of the Seychelles, was named after him. The villages of Choiseul and Praslin in Saint Lucia are also named after himHistorians generally give his reign very low marks, especially as wars drained the treasury and set the stage for the governmental collapse and French Revolution in the 1780s.Louis XV (15 February 1710 – 10 May 1774), known as Louis the Beloved was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who ruled as King of France from 1 September 1715 until his death in 1774. He succeeded his great-grandfather Louis XIV at the age of five. Until he reached maturity (then defined as his 13th birthday) on 15 February 1723, the kingdom was ruled by Philippe II, Duke of Orleans, as Regent of France. Cardinal Fleury was his chief minister from 1726 until the Cardinal's death in 1743, at which time the young king took sole control of the kingdom.His reign of almost 59 years (from 1715 to 1774) was the second longest in the history of France, exceeded only by his predecessor and great-grandfather, Louis XIV, who had ruled for 72 years (from 1643 to 1715). In 1748, Louis returned the Austrian Netherlands, won at the Battle of Fontenoy of 1745. He ceded New France in North America to Spain and Great Britain at the conclusion of the disastrous Seven Years' War in 1763. He incorporated the territories of the Duchy of Lorraine and the Corsican Republic into the Kingdom of France. He was succeeded in 1774 by his grandson Louis XVI, who was executed by guillotine during the French Revolution. Two of his other grandsons, Louis XVIII and Charles X, occupied the throne of France after the fall of Napoleon I.

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