Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou
Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou (April 30, 1689 – May 7, 1749, in Paris) was a French politician. He held several noble titles, including marquis of Combrande, baron de Châtillon-sur-Indre, and lord of Chaillou. From a family of magistrates, he held many government posts: a high-ranking legal official at the king’s court, maître des requêtes, intendant of the La Rochelle généralité (1720–26), intendant of finances (1726), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1737–1744), and superintendent of the Post Office (1737). He was elected to the Académie française in 1727 and became an honorary member of the Académie des sciences in 1741. In 1716 he married the daughter of Gio Paolo Bombarda, a businessman and theatre impresario; she died three years later. His second marriage produced a son, Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou. He died in Paris in 1749.
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