Note 58 — I LOUIS XIV[14]

Jérôme Phélypeaux, Comte de Pontchartrain (1674-1747), was associated with his father in the ministry of La Marine et la Maison du Roi in his nineteenth year, succeeding him when he became Chancellor in 1699. His administration was deplorable. Saint-Simon’s portrait of him is as life-like as it is unflattering (Mém. IV. 194-5; IX. 10-13).