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[[File:Restitution grande perspective.jpg|thumb|left|<center>[[Château de Meudon]] at the time of Dumont, circa 1715.</center>]] |
[[File:Restitution grande perspective.jpg|thumb|left|<center>[[Château de Meudon]] at the time of Dumont, circa 1715.</center>]] |
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[[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon|Saint-Simon]] mentions him many times in his ''Mémoires''. |
[[Louis de Rouvroy, duc de Saint-Simon|Saint-Simon]] mentions him many times in his ''Mémoires''. |
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{{Quote|Du Mont had the government of Meudon. He was a gentleman of good character. My father, being the first gentleman of the court and first squire of Louis XIII, made his father's small fortune, who found himself a man of merit which finished him off. He was Deputy Governor of the King, and died in this highly esteemed position. La Bourlie, Guiscard's father, was put in his place. The King took his son as a child and took care of old Beringhen, the first squire, and later attached him to Monseigneur, from whom he commanded the entire private stable, under the King's first squire. He was a great man, good-looking and well-made, extremely short-sighted, but who, born and raised at the court where he had spent his life, knew the routine and the shenanigans, a strong man of honour and benefactor, but with fantasies and ways like people of very little spirit and spoilt by favour. He always possessed all that of Monseigneur, his most intimate trust on all chapters; governed his particular purse and ordered his pleasures; A very honest man nevertheless, and who had the sense to always maintain himself very well with the King. With all this swelling, he never forgot what his father owed to mine; he published it, he paid him all kinds of respects, and always came to meet me for everything and in all things, with respect and friendship, and pricked himself and honored each other for me, which will be curiously so in the future. He was unhappy with his family. The Count of Brionne used him with a shine that forced him to confine his wife to the countryside forever. His only daughter gave him more consolation. She had merit, and married a very rich man who was never, almost always, seen in Normandy. His name was Mr. de Flers, the seditious name of Pellevé. With Monseigneur, du Mont lost everything that could be lost, and yet he always retained consideration out of esteem, and was always well treated by the King. He obtained in the Regency, Meudon's survival for Pellevé, his grandson, who had a gendarmerie company, and who had value and esteem in the world. He had married to the daughter of La Chaise, captain of the Porte, nephew of the P. de La Chaise. Du Mont did not have the pain of seeing his catastrophe. He went mad at intervals; he could not be left in Meudon where he was behaving with all kinds of extravagance. This finished turning his head; he finally drowned in the Seine, towards the Javelle mill.<ref>[http://rouvroy.medusis.com/docs/0509.html rouvroy.medusis.com]</ref>}} |
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Revision as of 11:16, 3 December 2018
Hyacinthe de Gauréault Dumont (or Du Mont), called Dumont (1647 - 16 March 1726) was a French administrator.
First chamber valet of Monseigneur, son of Louis XIV, he was appointed governor of the Château de Meudon from 1706 until his death. He also co-directed the Paris Opera with Jean-Nicolas de Francine, at the beginning of the 18th century.
Life
Born in 1647, he was a squire of Monseigneur (the Dauphin). He had been detached from the King's Little Stable to take care of the prince's horses. In this capacity, he directed the stud farm of Louis XIV's son in Normandy, apparently created in May 1693, and located on the edge of the forest of Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte, not far from the fiefdom of Dumont.[1] This stud farm housed about ten stallions. In 1705, Dumont was replaced at the head of this establishment by his nephew, Henri de Casaus, who later became an inspector of the stud farms of the Généralité.
On Friday, December 5, 1698, Philippe de Courcillon de Dangeau notes in his diary that at Meudon: "The King, at the prayer of Monseigneur, continued Francine's Privilege of the Opera for 10 years, provided he gives a quarter of the profit to Gaureault Dumont, Monseigneur's squire, and in addition that he gives 1.000 écus of pension to Jean Bérain the Elder, famous decorator, 1,000 écus of pension to Pascal Collasse, one of the four masters of the King's Music, and 1,000 francs of pension to Mademoiselle Rochouat[Le Rochois], who sang for a long time at the Opéra with great applause. Monseigneur had almost never asked the King for anything for private individuals, and he seemed to be very interested in that."[2]) On October 7, 1704, Dumont transferred his rights in the privilege of the Opera to Pierre Guyenet.[3] He was thus co-director of the Opera with Francine, from 1698 to 1704.
Over the years, he had become an intimate friend of Monseigneur, but without leaving his original body.
On the day of the death of Michel Thomassin, known as "Joyeux", on April 22, 1706, Monseigneur granted Hyacinthe de Gauréault Dumont the title of Governor of the castles of Meudon and Chaville, to whom the King granted 20,000 pounds of mortgages, according to Dangeau.
With the death of Monseigneur, on April 14, 1711, in Meudon, and before his father Louis XIV, Dumont lost all the hope he had placed in the heir to the throne, of which he was one of his close friends. The Duke of Burgundy, son of Monseigneur, then offered him a ring of 2,000 pistoles that had belonged to the prince.[4] Provisions dated 16 March 1717 confirmed his position as Governor of Meudon[5]. He died on March 16, 1726. Upon his death, his grandson, the marquis de Pellevé, also became Governor of the Château de Meudon.
Jugdment by Saint-Simon
Saint-Simon mentions him many times in his Mémoires.[6]
References
- ^ Matthieu Lahaye, Maison du Dauphin : maison fantôme pour une fonction dans l’ombre ?
- ^ Dangeau's diary, 5 December 1698, in Meudon. The Marquis de Sourches specifies things as follows: On the 6th, the King granted Francine the continuation of opera privileges for 10 years (Francine, to do so, had used Gaureault Dumont's credit with Monseigneur to obtain the continuation of the privilege in his favour, and it cost him a quarter of the profit) both in Paris and in the other major cities of the Kingdom, on condition that he gives the quarter to Dumont (squire of Monseigneur, son of a deputy governor of the King), and continues the 100[sic] écus of pension to Colasse (pupil of Lulli, who had begun by beating the measure for him at the opera) and as much to Bérain. (Mentionned by Marcelle Benoît, Les évènements musicaux sous le règne de Louis XIV, p. 273.
- ^ Archives nationales de France, O/1/48, fol. 164. 7 October 1704.
- ^ books.google.com.
- ^ Archives nationales, O/1/61, fol. 51 v°, 16 March 1717. Provisions de gouverneur de Meudon.
- ^ rouvroy.medusis.com
