Name Guillaume Lamoignon Grandparents Guillaume de Lamoignon | Died 1772 Great-grandparents Chretien de Lamoignon | |
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Parents Chretien-Francois Ier de Lamoignon Children Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes Grandchildren Antoinette de Lamoignon de Malesherbes | ||
Guillaume II de Lamoignon, seigneur de Blancmesnil et de Malesherbes (Paris, 1683 —1772) was a French magistrate.
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Biography
The second son of the president Chretien Francois de Lamoignon, he was named general avocat for the Parlement of Paris on 2 July 1707 and then became president a mortier to the same parlement on 20 December 1723. He was the Premier President to the Cour des aides from 9 May 1746 to 1749.
He was an excellent lawyer and loved literature and history. He had impeccable morals (which was rather infrequent in the Parlements of Paris), and rejected Jansenism.
He was named Chancellor of France (without the seal which was trusted earlier to Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville) on 9 December 1750, replacing Henri Francois d'Aguesseau, who had quit. The parlementary revolt was thus his paroxysm, and Lamoignon, far from losing authority, as is usually said, with difficulty supported these coups of the noblesse de robe.
As the King had finished tolerating the weak will of his chancellor he demanded Lamoignon's resignation. When Lamoignon refused he was exiled to his chateau on 3 October 1763.
He was the father of Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (1721-1794).