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About Jean-Antoine de Mesmes
Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux (1661–1723) was a premier president of the Parlement of Paris and member of the Académie française. As premier president he presided at the rescinding of the will of Louis XIV and in 1720 at the remonstrance against the regent, Philippe of Orléans, for allowing John Law's disastrous financial scheme and appointing Guillaume Dubois as archbishop of Cambrai.
Everything about Jean-Antoine de Mesmes →- Occupation
- magistrate, jurist
- Position held
- Premier-President of the Parliament of Paris, Member of the Académie française
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- 1661, November 18, 1661
- Died
- August 23, 1723