Samuel-Jacques Bernard (1686-1753)
See also: Bernard
Samuel-Jacques Bernard , count de Coubert (1739), born in 1686 and dead the July 22nd 1753, is a French personality of the 18th century.
Oldest son of the financial richissime Samuel Bernard, his father Maria with Louise Olive Frottier of Coste of Messelière, resulting from an old family of the Poitou. It had a son, Oliver-Samuel-Jacques, who was prosecuting attorney at the requests of the hotel.
It was Maître of the requests, Surintendant of the House, Domaines and Finances of the Queen (May 1725), then large senior of the Masters of the requests of the hotel, Conseiller ordinary State, provost of the Masters of the ceremonies of the royal and military Ordre of Saint-Louis (June 1728).
Samuel-Jacques Bernard passed the essence of his existence to waste paternal fortune. He bought the March 4th 1718 with Christian Louis of Montmorency-Luxembourg, the last wire of the marshal of Luxembourg and to his wife, Louise Madeleine de Harlay-Beaumont, the Château of Grosbois, in which he made carry out expensive embellishments. He created in particular the superb farm of the castle and refitted the interior decorations. In 1731, it was constrained to separate from this field, sold with Germain Louis Chauvelin. Same manner, it could pay splendid especially table out of solid silver only it had ordered from Thomas Germain in 1729 - 1731, that the descendants of the goldsmith ended up selling in 1757 to the duke of Aveiro which left him its name.
Sumptuous, art lover, it made bankruptcy in 1751 carrying 8.000 books of revenues due to Voltaire, of which it managed fortune. This last referred there in the philosophical Dictionary to the article “Bankruptcy”: “ a man of letters of my knowledge lost eighty thousand francs with the bankruptcy of an important magistrate, who had had several Nets million in division of the succession of Mister his father, and who, in addition to the importance of his load and his person, still had a rather important dignity at the court. He died despite everything that; and Mister his son, who had also bought an important load, seized the best effects. The man of letters wrote to him, not doubting his honesty, waited until this man had a dignity of man of law. Important him manda that it would always protect the men of letters, flees, and did not pay anything. ”
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