Louis XIV - Ennoblement - Farmer General 1 piece,... Lot 45

Louis XIV - Ennoblement - Farmer General] 1 piece, 1677 P.S. "Louis", Saint Germain en Laye, February 1677, and countersigned on the reverse by PHELYPEAUX secretary of state, wove paper. in-plano, with arms painted in ink and gouache; ennoblement letter granted to Jacques LAUGEOIS d'IMBERCOURT and de LAUNAY, in reward for his services in the army and then in the royal administration, arms: azure with the silver tower and the chief herminé. (rest. old, folds) Coming from a bourgeois family of Parisian merchants, Jacques Laugeois began his career in the army. In 1638, he joined the regiment of French guards in the company of Sieur du Borde and took part in the siege of Catelet in Picardy: "he would have campaigned during the siege of Catelet to attack with the lost children, he would have been the first to go up on the breach and would have stopped the governor of the place with his hand, in which action he would have received a wound from which he would have remained crippled". In 1649, he was given command of an infantry company within the Noaillac regiment and campaigned in Italy. The day after the dismissal of his regiment, he retired from military life and turned to the king's business. In 1656, he acquired the office of secretary to the king within the great college to launch himself into the world of finance. Beginning as a clerk in charge of the size of various elections, he achieved a meteoric rise in society, becoming general farmer of the aides and gabelles from 1674 to 1693, and shareholder of the East India Company.