Name Jean-Antoine Mesmes Parents Jean-Jacques de Mesmes | Died August 23, 1723, France | |
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Role Jean-Jacques de Mesmes' son | ||
Jean-Antoine de Mesmes (1661 – 23 August 1723) was a Parisian magistrate and member of the Academie francaise.
Mesmes was the son of Jean-Jacques de Mesmes, himself a member of the Academie francaise from 1676 to 1688.
Mesmes was elected to the twenty-second seat of the Academie francaise on 18 January 1710, replacing (and thus eulogizing) Louis de Verjus, comte de Crecy, and was received by Francois de Callieres on 20 March 1710 (following the procedures of membership).
In 1712, de Mesmes was elected to the presidency of the Parlement of Paris. His admonishment of the king for the Law affair and for the elevation of Cardinal Dubois to the archdiocese of Cambrai earned for the entire Parlement an exile to Pontoise. He was a familiar of the court in Sceaux.
Upon de Mesmes's death, the twenty-second seat was succeeded by Pierre-Joseph Alary. His family neglected to advertise his membership in the Academy in his obituary; when the Academy expressed a certain astonishment, his brother sent a letter of apology and regret.