Guillaume II de Lamoignon, seigneur de Blancmesnil et de Malesherbes (

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, 6 March 1683 — 12 July 1772) was a French magistrate.

Biography

The second son of the président Chrétien François de Lamoignon, he was named general avocat for the

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on 2 July 1707 and then became

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to the same parlement on 20 December 1723. He was the Premier Président 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

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. He was named

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(without the seal which was trusted earlier to

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) on 9 December 1750, replacing

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, 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 ''

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''. 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 château on 3 October 1763. He was the father of

Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes Guillaume-Chrétien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes (, 6 December 1721 – 22 April 1794), often referred to as Malesherbes or Lamoignon-Malesherbes, was a French statesman and minister in the Ancien Régime, and later counsel for the defense of Lou ...

(1721-1794).

Residences

*Paris: **Until 1750, Hôtel d'Angoulême Lamoignon, 24 Rue Pavée. (Today it is the historical library of Paris.) **1750-1768, Hôtel de la Chancellerie, 13

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. (Today it is the Ministry of Justice.) *

Château de Malesherbes Château de Malesherbesis is a French château located in Malesherbes, Loiret, Malesherbes, in the commune of Le Malesherbois, Malesherbois and the department of Loiret in the Centre-Val de Loire region. A first castle on the site is attested, ...

in Malesherbes (the present département of

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), bought in 1718 from Alexandre d'Illiers d'Entragues.

References

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