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The man in the picture is obviously from the middle of the seventeenth century during the time when Louis Phélypeaux, sgr. de La Vrillière was Secretary of State for the R. P. R. from 1629 to 1681.

The Phélupeaux were a prolific family with a lot of Secretaries of State during the seventeenth century. At least three of them were named Louis. The biography is of Louis Phélypeaux, comte de Pontchartrain, who was Secretary of State for the Maison du Roi and the Navy from 1690 to 1699, controller general of finances from 1689 until 1699, and Chancellor of France from September 1699 until July 1714.

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