Germain Louis Chauvelin

Germain Louis Chauvelin de, marquis de Groisbois (* 1685, † 1762) was a French Minister of State, Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs from 1727 to 1737 and Lord Privy Seal.

Life and work

Germain Louis Chauvelin de pursued as Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs directed against Austria policy. He was one of the principal proponents of France declared war on Austria in 1733 ( Polish Succession War) due to the voltages to the Polish throne. In the preliminary peace of Vienna in 1735 (see the Treaty of Vienna ( 1738) ), although France had the throne of Frederick Augustus II accept the French candidate, and father in law of Louis XV. However Stanislaus Leszczynski received the Duchy of Lorraine, that thus had to fall to France in the long term. In 1736 Chauvelin said after the marriage of the Emperor's daughter Maria Theresa and Francis Stephen of Lorraine to the effect that an association of Lorraine should not be accepted with the imperial rule. On September 30 of this year was Stanislaus Leszczynski of Chauvelin and Cardinal Fleury moved to leave the financial management and administration of the duchies of Lorraine and Bar to the French State. In return he received cash payments from the French crown. The provisions of the Vienna peace were finally valid in 1738.