Claude François Paparel
Claude François Paparel , born in 1659 and dead the May 18th 1725 in Paris. He is the son of François Paparel, Conseiller of Roy, Trésorier of extraordinary of the wars Paparel, family of the Lyonese carry: Of azure, with 3 gold turns; with the chief of the mesme charged with a busy lion of mouths.
To advise of Roy, Treasurer of extraordinary wars and general Treasurer of the gendarmerie and light horsemen (1702 - 1716), father-in-law of the Marshal of France Philippe Charles of Fare.
A financial rich person
Claude François Paparel is
- Conseiller of Roy, on December 15th, 1688,
- general Trésorier of extraordinary of the wars, on December 13rd, 1697. One calls extraordinary wars the sums which are not envisaged with the budget of the war, its naps of the time of Louis XIV and Louvois often exceed the initial budget and are thus considerable. The general Treasurer of extraordinary of the wars is also charged to pay the troops
Claude François Paparel adds in December 1701 three offices lately create with the loads of his father:
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general Treasurer of the company of the gendarmes, the ten police companies and the six companies of light horsemen of Louis XIV.
Claude François Paparel is a financier who with the reputation to be a pleasant man and of good company. In 1710, Bontemps, First manservant of the king, borrows 4.000 books from Paparel, and does not pay him until 1714. However we find a Declaration… which orders with the sior Paparel, general treasurer of ordinary of the wars to pay the pledges of the one of its servants. It prevents the sale of the silverware of the Invalids by paying an installment to buy corn to nourish the poor, but is long in paying 60.000 books of which it is indebted.
When Colbert organizes the Compagnie of Raising, Pennautier, and Paparel are the two principal shareholders and leaders.
Its marriage
Claude François Paparel Marie with Marie de Sauvion, girl of Jean de Sauvion (1643 - 1729), general Treasurer of extraordinary of the wars, Adviser of the King, rider and of Francoise Genevieve Renouard of Touanne, it even girl of a general Treasurer of extraordinary of the wars.
Jean de Sauvion is one of the six members of the consortium of financial at the origin of the allotment of the Vendôme place. When his/her father-in-law is imprisoned in 1701 with the Prison of the Bastille, Claude François Paparel and the other sons-in-law urge to represent themselves at any hour that the King will like it, when it is need for his service, M of Sauvion, their father-in-law and to carry out it where it will be need. Claude François Paparel pays a guarantee to leave it the Prison of the Bastille.
Astonishing family! Jean de Sauvion is innocent and in prison because of the embezzlements of his/her father-in-law, Charles Renouard of Touanne, which dies shortly after.
The Place Vendôme (1699)
Nicolas-Jerome Herlaut, another financier, acquires in 1699 with Mathurin Besnier, lawyer with the Parlement of Paris, father-in-law of the architect Jacques V Gabriel, the batches n° 10 and 12, corresponding to the futures hotels of the Turn-Maubourg and Baudart of Saint-James . Concretely, it approximately buys under the name of Madeleine Beaunier de Marine a place of 385 measuring apparatuses whose face contains eight arcades, holding on a side and by behind with the grounds which it had already and the other side those of Claude François Paparel, general treasurer of ordinary of the wars. They resell them in 1700 in Louis Dublineau, Doctor in Sorbonne. Herlaut at the time of the division before the sale is seen allotting the batch n° 12.
Nicolas-Jerome Herlaut also buys, in 1710, the batch n° 18 which corresponds to the Duché hotel of the Small towers , to increase its own hotel located at 20 place Vendôme. A space separated the hotel Herlaut from that of the Paparel it Fare . Until 1716 and the war with treating, date of its arrest Claude François Paparel remains on the place Louis-the-Large
See also: Place Vendôme
The seigniory of Vitry-sur-Seine (1708)
Claude François Paparel had bought with the biddings of the sior Philippe Jacques, clerk as a chief of the Parlement of Paris, the seigniory of Vitry-sur-Seine, with two miles of Paris, in 1708, and he became the lord of the place. Then, Paparel makes build a castle in Vitry, in 1710. But he lives especially in Paris in rich person residences, in particular Place Vendôme. Paparel, Treasurer of Extraordinary of the Wars of Louis XIV, is not satisfied to manage and direct its services. He likes to take initiatives with the contempt of the payment. For example, very large-scale consumer of tokens of account, it makes some manufacture in Germany bearing his name to be useful in his ministry.
The marriage of his/her daughter (1713)
Philippe Charles of Fare benefits from its stay in Paris to marry by contract of April 6th, 1713, on August 6th, with Francoise Paparel, girl of Claude François Paparel, lord of Vitry-sur-Seine, treasurer of extraordinary of the wars, and Marie Sauvion.
Philippe de Courcillon de Dangeau written: the king signed the morning the marriage contract of the Marquis of Fare, captain of the guards of Mr. the Duke of Orleans with Miss Paparel has who it father gives 560.000 books in marriage. the girl of Paparel is as ugly, says one, as his/her father is coriace and interested .
The woman of Fare is very young. The Father Anselme and François-Alexandre of Chenaye-Aubert, the only genealogists who will speak about it, will give birth to it in 1706. She however did not marry at seven years! We know by the marriage contract of his/her daughter with the future general-count Louis Groult of the Rivers that the latter was born in 1716. His/her mother can however have only 13 or 14 years at the time of her design.
Condemned to the bracket
The regent, Philippe of Orleans (1674-1723), finds the cases of the state empty with died of Louis XIV. He installs the room of justice in a room of the convent of Augustins and made there transfer from the instruments of torture. The bankers are the first concerned. The slanderers of the rich person who defraud receive premiums and those which criticize them are condemned to death. A priest who betrays the seal of confession receives 100.000 books. Sometimes without to be denounced bankers are tortured. the room of justice torture 6.000 people to recover their large or small fortunes
The regent, Philippe of Orleans (1674-1723) request of the accounts to its treasurers. Paparel which cannot justify, appears it, the deficit of its accountancy is put in a state of arrest. It would have, appears it, required the tenth sum of money on all the payments which it had made to the officers and bodyguards, is 700.000 francs and had touched 1.200.000 books supposedly and had preserved for him this sum. But the room of justice also shows it to have lent 1.600.000 books to the enemies of France during the War of succession of Spain. Seals are affixed on its goods, which are seized in 1716, at the request of the general adviser of the Room of the Accounts, and put in adjudication.
Claude François Paparel is condemned to the bracket for crime of peculation and Gruel and Lenormand, two collectors, with the perpetual chiourme. They are trailed barefeet and lines some in winter in the streets of Paris and attaches to the yoke. A sign where he is written robbers of the people , makes that they are lapidated by crowd. And same crowd opposes so that they are protected from the cold by a coat.
April 20th 1716, it is finally condemned to have the distinct head.
The business makes great noise, the sister of the regent is baited against Paparel, because it is the wrong not to be noble. One reminds the passage that his/her son-in-law made in his eyes a misalliance: I worts already ouys to say that Paparelle estoit condemned to have tests it distinct, my I find that one luy made honor well, because he is not nice man and I croyois only this ceroit the potance with quoy he ceroit condanné, aussy although Bourvalais, because these jans there cruelly stole the roy and populate it; my it is said that it is in favor of his/her Lafare son-in-law that it had a banishment, and that it will not be excéquté . Indeed, Philippe Charles of Fare request to his/her friend the Regent grace of his father-in-law. The king slackens or does not make carry out 4.000 people, but imposes 400 million fines to them.
If the family of the Regent insults Paparel, the middle-class and part of the nobility feels sorry for it and feels threatened by the policy of the Regent. Sieur Duplessis replaces it in 1717 as Trésorier of extraordinary wars and gendarmerie. It does not avoid the rigors of the Room of justice… and is taxed for the sum with 1.504.415 books.
End of its life (1716 - 1725)
The financial ones, the middle-class men, the noble ones who contribute to the development of France, hide their money. As Buvat in its Journal notes it, this money is perceived only to feed the orgies of the Regent with his friends and of the lost women .
A note of Recueil of documents on the history of Lorraine says to us that: Paparel, treasurer of the gendarmerie, condemned to died by the room of justice established for the search and the punishment for those which had made abuses in finances. Its goods were confiscated with the profit of the king, and some reports of time report that one was made indignant to see the marquis of Fare, son-in-law of Paparel, to be delighted by the catastrophe of his father-in-law, and to be made some allocate the goods, that it dissipated in prodigalities and vices, without same seeking to soften the fate of Paparel, whose sorrow had been commuted, and who was tiny room to the begging, like his/her son. Rene Louis de Voyer de Paulmy d' Argenson critical him also Philippe Charles of Fare which has eaten more than 4 million which will almost let die of hunger Claude François Paparel.
Its sorrow being commuted to perpetual detention, relegated to the castle of Saumur in 1716, then in the abbey of Laon in 1719, Claude François Paparel dies according to the rumor in misery in 1725.
Actually, it finishes its days in the Île Holy-Marguerite, in Provence, with a pension of 1.000 francs what corresponds to the pay of a lieutenant… not really the begging. It is accompanied as of Saumur by its servants, mainly his cook . And then it is made rehabilitate and touched an alimony of his son-in-law of 8.000 books and it dies in Paris in 1725.
Philippe Charles of Fare must pay the debts with the Regent, in spite of their great friendship, which explains partly why it has eaten more than 4 million. It also pays the creditors. However, his wife, the girl of Paparel finishes her Parisian religious community days.
Heritage
Philippe Charles of Fare sells the grounds and the castle of Vitry-sur-Seine, on September 8th, 1719, in Vincent Leblanc, Grand Usher of France, for the sum of 255.000 books.
We find in this act a brief description of the ground of Vitry-sur-Seine: It consists of a castle house seigneuriale and principal manor of the place, made up of a large carriage door, while entering, paved court and roasts iron. The castle has two stages and includes/understands several rooms, lavatories and conveniences, an attic above, the covered whole of slates. Stables, kitchens, office on the right and on the left several rooms. A park closed by an iron grid with alleys decorated with trees and water jets. Vegetable garden with an exit on the countryside. A made up farm basic court, room, attic, stable, barn, cattle shed with cows and pigs and other covered thatch buildings and slates, with grounds, meadows and other memberships, circumstances and dependence of the aforesaid the ground. Right of stronghold, high, average and low justice of the borough of Vitry and the parishes Saint-Germain and Saint-Gervais Saint-Protais.
There is opposition to the refunding of the office of his father-in-law. His/her brother-in-law finishes his life in the begging, appears it, though one is convinced that his/her father had much money in the foreign countries.