Guillaume Dubois

Guillaume Dubois ( born September 6, 1656 in Brive- la -Gaillarde in Limousin, † August 10 1723 in Versailles) was a French cardinal and minister under the regency of Philippe II de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans So the Duke of Orléans.

Life and work

As the son of a respected physician and pharmacy owner in 1672 he received a scholarship at the Collège St. Michel to Paris and, after he had been tutor at various locations and on the recommendation of the Dean of St. Michel, Antoine Faure to which he is a very good relationship used, tutor to the Duke Philip of Chartres, later Duke of Orléans, whose marriage to the daughter of Louis XIV by Madame de Montespan was his work. The king granted him for the Abbey of St. Justinian

After the appointment of the Duke of Orleans to the Prince Regent in 1715 raised to the State Council, he proved to be a shrewd and cunning diplomat; he was chiefly, who ran an alliance between France and the UK, as well as the so-called triple alliance directed against Spain on 2 August 1718 ( after the accession of the Emperor Quadruple Alliance ) by his intermediation came ( War of the Quadruple Alliance ).

Charged on the Minister of Foreign Affairs, he defeated the conspiracy of Cellamare and overthrew the Spanish minister Giulio Alberoni. The Pope Innocent XIII. he proved to be so complacent that he was Archbishop of Cambrai in 1720 and 1721 at the same time Cardinal. The assembly of the French clergy chose him in 1723 as president. 1722 brought the first Minister of State, he developed a great activity and could the French people a long time to keep the peace, but also used his power to accumulate wealth, and competed in the worst excesses of the court of the regent. Since 1722 he was a member of the Académie française ( fauteuil 28).

The under Dubois ' names published " Memoirs " are spurious.

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