Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet of Beautiful-Isle

Biography

After being itself distinguished under Louis XIV and the Regency in the wars from Flanders and Spain, it was named in 1732, general lieutenant, and was used in 1734 under the Maréchal as Berwick. Skilful negotiator, it strongly contributed to ensure the Lorraine the France (1736). The January 25th 1741, with died of Chauvelin, was named ambassador extraordinary in Germany to support the election with the Empire of the duke of Bavaria under the name of Charles VII of the Holy roman Empire.

When the emperor Charles VI died in 1740, Beautiful-Isle the party of the war represented and pushed Louis XV and the cardinal of Fleury to be begun in the conflict by supporting the voter of Bavaria, from which he was the cousin resulting from German. Named Marshal of France in 1740, it took a great part with the War of succession of Austria, ordered the Bohemia, and made take Prague; but surrounded by higher forces, it was forced to evacuate the city and then made a retirement which was universally admired (1742).

It then went to defend the Dauphiné and the Provence, which threatened the Autrichien S and the Piedmont board (1746). The May 16th 1756, he became minister of state and, the March 3rd 1758, Secretary of State at the department of the War. Governor of the province of the Three bishoprices during thirty years, it created the royal Company of sciences and arts of the town of Metz, where it also took part in the construction of the Holy-Glossinde church, the hotel of Intendance, the Place of Weapons.

He was elected in 1749 with the French Academy. Voltaire said of him: “He wrote in a simple and common way, and one would never have realized, by the style of his dispatches, of the force and the activity of his ideas. ”

His/her brother is known under the name of Chevalier of Beautiful-Isle.

Partial source

External bond

Biographical note of the French Academy

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