Louis Phélypeaux (1672–1725), marquis de La Vrillière, was a French

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 politician

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.

He succeeded his father Balthazar Phélypeaux as minister for the "so-called Reformed religion"

Secretary of State for Protestant Affairs

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, that is with responsibility for Huguenot

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s in 1700. In 1715, when the Regent

Philippe II, Duke of Orléans

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 forced Phélypeaux's kinsman Jérôme Phélypeaux

Jérôme Phélypeaux

Jérôme Phélypeaux , comte de Pontchartrain, was a French politician, son of Louis Phélypeaux.He served as a councillor to the parlement of Paris from 1692, and served with his father as Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi and Navy Minster from 1699 onwards...

 to resign his ministries in favour of Jérôme's son Jean Frédéric

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas

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, Phélypeaux became acting head of the Department of the Maison du Roi

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 and of Navy Ministry

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. He exercised control of the ministries from 1715 to 1718 when Jean-Frédéric took effective office.

He was succeeded as minister for Hugenot matters by his son, Louis.

He married Françoise de Mailly-Nesle (1688–1742) in 1700. They had four children:

1. Anne-Marie (1702–1716)
2. Marie-Jeanne (1704–1793) who married her kinsman Jean Frédéric, comte de Maurepas, in 1718.
3. Louis (1705–1777), comte de Saint-Florentin, marquis (1725) and (1770) duc de La Vrillière
4. Louise-Françoise (1707–1737) who married Louis de Bréhan de Plélo (1699–1734)