Simon Arnauld, Marquis de Pomponne

Simon Arnauld, marquis de Pomponne (* November 1618 in Paris, † September 26, 1699 in Fontainebleau ) was a French diplomat and foreign minister.

Life

Pomponne was the son of Robert Arnauld d' Andilly Jansenists (1589-1674) and since 1642 director of Casale Monferrato, then director general of the armies in Naples and Catalonia, 1665-1668 envoy to Sweden, then in The Hague. In 1671 he was called back to Sweden and obtained an alliance of the two countries, the Netherlands, the United isolated and made vulnerable to France. In the same year he inherited the deceased in September Foreign Minister Hugues de Lionne. In 1679 he was ' laid off, especially since Louis XIV was unhappy with him and accused him of having shown too weak stance in the negotiations of the Peace of Nijmegen after the conclusion of the Peace of Nijmegen by the combined efforts of Colbert and Louvois. The Jesuits were hostile to him because you saw a partisan of the Jansenists in him.

In 1691, he was re-appointed in the Council of State and served as an advisor of Louis XIV in areas of foreign policy and administration, but without ministerial department.