Name Jean-Jacques de | Role Politician | |
Died May 7, 1749, Paris, France | ||
Jean-Jacques Amelot de Chaillou (30 April 1689 – 7 May 1749, Paris) was a French politician. He was marquis of Combrande, baron de Chatillon-sur-Indre, seigneur de Chaillou.
Biography
From a family of magistrates, he was in turn made avocat general aux requetes de la maison du roi, maitre des requetes ordinaires (1712), intendant of the generalite of La Rochelle (1720–26), intendant des finances (1726), Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs (1737–44) and surintendant des Postes (1737).
He was elected to the Academie francaise en 1727 et membre honoraire de l'Academie des sciences in 1741.
In 1716 he married the daughter of the businessman and theatre head Gio Paolo Bombarda - she died three years later. His child by his second marriage was Antoine-Jean Amelot de Chaillou.