Étienne Maynon d'Invault

Étienne Maynon d'Invault
Controller-General of Finances
In office
22 September 1768 – 19 December 1769
MonarchLouis XV
Preceded byClément Charles François de Laverdy
Succeeded byJoseph Marie Terray
Minister of State
In office
19 December 1768 – ?
MonarchLouis XV
Counselor of State
In office
7 November 1767 – ?
Steward of Picardy
In office
August 1754 – ?
President of the Grand Council
In office
1753–?
Personal details
Born1721 (1721)
Died1801 (aged 79–80)
OccupationStatesman

Étienne Maynon d'Invault (1721–1801) was a French statesman.

Early life

He was born in 1721 in Paris.

He was the son of Vincent Maynon of Invault and Agnes Bouvard Fourqueux.

Career

He was an advisor to the Investigations of the Parlement of Paris in 1741. He was then master of requests (4 March 1747 – 29 January 1766), president of the Grand Council (1753), steward of Picardy in Amiens (August 1754). Appointed State supernumerary on 5 October 1766, he became Counselor of State on 7 November 1767.

He was appointed Comptroller General of Finance on 22 September 1768 and Minister of State on 19 December 1768.

He proposed extending the second Vingtième until 1772, which raised strong remonstrances of the Parliaments and drove Louis XV to hold a lit de justice on 11 January 1769 to register the edict.

He used the ordinary expedients while preparing drastic measures that should be discussed on 19 December 1769. The Boards of Finance gathered together in a committee comprising members of both Councils. Following this meeting, Louis XV decided not to submit the measures envisaged in the expanded Council, which led to his resignation on 19 December 1769.

Personal life and death

In 1758, he married his cousin Elizabeth Adelaide Bouvard Fourqueux.

He died in 1801 in Saint-Germain-en-Laye.

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