Toussaint Rose

Toussaint Rose ( * September 3, 1611 or baptized on September 5, 1615 in Provins, today Dépt Seine-et- Marne, . † January 6, 1701 in Paris) was a French secretary of Cardinal Jules Mazarin ( 1602-1661 ) and worked as the partisans at the court of King Louis XIV.

Life

Rose was born in 1611 or 1615, the sources are not as agreed, however, speaks more for the date 1615, as the biographer Villiers du Terrage claims to have seen the baptismal certificate in the city archives in Provins.

Rose attended a Catholic seminary ( école des prêtres séculiers ) in Provins. Later, he has a degree in law in secular and canon law at the Sorbonne in Paris. He then returned to Provins, where he worked for two years as a lawyer.

On November 26, 1636 he was sworn in as a lawyer at the Parlement of Paris. He decided, in the service of Cardinal Armand -Jean du Plessis, duc de Richelieu (1585-1642) to contact. He gave this position in March 1638 and again joined the entourage of Jean -François Paul de Gondi ( 1613-1679 ) in, with whom he went to Italy.

Secretary of Mazarin

After his return from Italy, Rose entered the service of Jules Mazarin. On September 8, 1641 Rose Madeleine de Villiers married († June 27, 1701 ). Rose rented a house in Suresnes on (later he bought a house there ). On August 31, 1642 Louis Rose was his only child, was born there. When Cardinal Richelieu died on December 4, 1642, Mazarin was in his place Principal Ministre de l' État ( comparable to a prime minister).

1643 the system of the members of the Conseil du roi de France was reformed ( advisor to the King of France). This reformed committee was the forerunner of today's Ministerial Council in France. In December 1645 Rose was entitled " Secretary to His Eminence " (Secretary of Mazarin ). Through the influence of Mazarin Rose was taken on October 30, 1649 in Conseil du roi de France by Anne of Austria ( 1601-1666 ).

In the time of the Fronde (1648-1653) Rose traveled a lot as a messenger between Mazarin Mazarin and Louis II de Bourbon, prince de Condé (1621-1686) and Jean -François Paul de Gondi. Was self in time as Mazarin in exile (1651-1653) Rose continued to work for him.

From 1654 Rose was for the monitoring and management of forestry by Philippe I de Bourbon, duc d' Orléans, the king's brother, who is responsible.

1655 Toussaint Rose and his father Étienne Rose were raised to the peerage. Étienne Rose was now mayor of Provins become, he chose a blue coat of arms with golden chevron ( inverted V) and three roses, two of them side by side at the top ( en chef ) and one at the top. Levels was the coat of arms of two greyhounds and the motto was: " Nunquam marcessent " ( never fade ). Toussaint Rose acquired shortly after the feud Coye in the forest of Chantilly and called himself the Marquis de Coye.

Secretary of the King

On April 25, 1657 Rose was appointed secretary of the king's chamber ( secrétaire de la chambre et du cabinet de Sa majesté ) and was appointed President of the Court in Paris 1661. In 1667 he obtained that the members of the Académie française in society were the same rank as the members of the Parlement. For this he was taken up in 1675 as the successor of the writer Valentin Conrart to the Académie française ( fauteuil 2). He himself followed by the jurist Louis de Sacy after his death.