What about the other son, Tancrede's brother, Louis Nicolas Felix?
Wikipedia's relative article (first-time online, 2006) :
Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières, comte du Muy
Surnom Maréchal de Muy
Naissance 23 septembre 1711
à Aix-en-Provence
Décès 10 octobre 1775 (à 64 ans)
à Versailles
Origine Français
Allégeance Royaume de France
Dignité d'État
Maréchal de France
Secrétaire d'État à la Guerre
Louis Nicolas Victor de Félix d'Ollières, comte du Muy, comte de Grignan, né à Aix-en-Provence le 23 septembre 1711 et mort à Versailles le 10 octobre 17751, est un militaire et homme d'État français.
Issu d'une famille originaire de Provence. Membre de l'Ordre du Saint-Esprit en 1764.
Ancien menin du Dauphin Louis-Ferdinand, il lui était resté si attaché qu'il demanda à être enterré à ses pieds en la cathédrale Saint-Étienne de Sens. Ce trait était bien fait pour plaire à Louis XVI ; aussi Maurepas le fait-il nommer Secrétaire d'État à la Guerre le 5 juin 1774. Il est élevé à la dignité de maréchal de France en 1775.
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[masquer] 1 Biographie
2 Armoiries
3 Notes et références
4 Voir aussi 4.1 Sources et bibliographie
4.2 Liens externes
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Buste du comte de Muy par Jean-Jacques Caffieri au Metropolitan Museum of Art à New York (1776)
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PS see http://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ch%C3%A2teau_de_Grignan: It was aquired by the Felix de Muy le 5 avril 1732 avec ses dépendances pour 290 000 livres.
On "John Law's" character
Apart from other conclusions already reached on young Voltaire’s character (with regard to his treatment of other people, females in particular), the following extracts, on the Compagnie des Indes scandal, may further enlighten the reader.
(New Data from http://www.cosmovisions.com/ChronoFrance-Regence.htm and http://www.francoisjacob.ch/pdf/Une%...0ordinaire.pdf already in previous timelines)
Voltaire on the Regent:
Of the race of Henry IV, wrote Voltaire, the regent was the one who resembled him the most," not only physically, but the value, extent and accuracy of his intelligence, sense of progress, much goodness, this gaiety of spirit of which Ninon de l'Enclos said it was a mark of strength, the charge that he put into everything and had the charm to refuse, and also by his love of pleasure which ruined him prematurely in night parties, with various mistresses (the Parabere the Phalari) and her daughter, the cheeky and charming Duchess de Berry.
....the regent first tried to govern with councils, composed of nobles and members of clergy, instead of Secretaries of State, "these hammers that had made powder of nobility "," these vizirs- ". It had been the idea of Fenelon*, the Duke of Beauvilliers**.
Voltaire, as market-maker, on the state of the nation with regard to "the market", at the time:
"The bulk of the nation, says Voltaire, was in ignorance so deep that there was hardly any minister or judge who knew what a company's share was , bonuses, foreign exchange, a dividend.
As John Law (a physician's viewpoint): Those who want to raise money and keep it are as parts or ends of the human body, which would stop the blood passage nourishing them; soon they would destroy the principle of life in the heart and other body parts.
Voltaire on John Law, his System (Described in his « Considérations sur le numéraire et le commerce, 1705), La Compagnie des Indes and his only error:
"If Law had stuck to his System, he would be considered one of the benefactors of our country and as the creator of a superb credit institution
« Si Law s'en était tenu à cet établissement, il serait considéré comme un des bienfaiteurs de notre pays et comme le créateur d'un superbe établissement de crédit. »
Finally, Voltaire/Dr Astruc’s terminal diagnosis :
It was like an emetic to patients; we took a lot, and we had seizures « C'était l'émétique à des malades; nous en prîmes trop, et nous eûmes des convulsions.-»
After the bubble burst, France was forced into a treaty with Britain because of the state of its economy.
*By Fenelon: A people is no less a member of the human race, which is society as a whole, than a family is a member of a particular nation. Each individual owes incomparably more to the human race, which is the great fatherland, than to the particular country in which he was born. As a family is to the nation, so is the nation to the universal commonweal; wherefore it is infinitely more harmful for nation to wrong nation, than for family to wrong family. To abandon the sentiment of humanity is not merely to renounce civilization and to relapse into barbarism, it is to share in the blindness of the most brutish brigands and savages; it is to be a man no longer, but a cannibal.
**Draw conclusions on V's relations to Mme de Beauvilliers and her husband mentioned in timelines above.
