Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis of Phélypeaux was a French politician.
Portrait by Robert Levrac-Tournières
Jérôme Phélypeaux
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Jérôme Phélypeaux, Count of Pontchartrain, comte de Pontchartrain, was a French statesman, son of Louis Phélypeaux and Marie de Maupeou.
Louis Phélypeaux, Marquis of Phélypeaux
…increasingly authoritarian Louis XIV. He retired to an Oratorian institution where he died in 1727. In 1668 he married Marie de Maupeou. They had one son, Jérôme Phélypeaux (1674–1747), comte de Pontchartrain. Lake Pontchartrain in Louisiana was named after him, as well as the historic Hotel Pontchartrain in New Orleans…
Portrait of Jérôme Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain