The Intendancy of Brittany was an intendancy created in 1689 by Louis XIV, after 2 attempts to do so in 1636 and 1647. The governor of Brittany had a more prestigious role, but the intendant was the essential relay for the monarch's will.
List of holders Auguste-Robert de Pomereu, 1689-1692 Louis de Béchameil, 1692-1705, put in place from the sub-delegates Ferrand de Villemilan, 1705-1716 Paul Esprit Feydeau de Brou, 1716-1728 Des Gallois de la Tour, 1728-1735 Pontcarré de Viarmes, 1735-1753 Le Bret, 1753-1765 Jacques de Flesselles, 1765-1767 François Marie Bruno d'Agay, 1767-1771 Guillaume-Joseph Dupleix de Bacquencourt, 1771-1774 Gaspard-Louis Caze, baron de la Bove, 1774-1784 Antoine François de Bertrand-Molleville, 1784-1788 François-Germain Dufaure de Rochefort, 1788 - resigned to the Directory on 31 August 1790.
Activity of the intendant
Ordinances
Extraordinary missions
History of the institution (...)
In 1786, the headquarters of the intendance was displaced to Nantes to remove it from the immediate influence of the parliament and the Estates General or their committees. The towns of Brest, Chateaubriand, Le Croisic, Dinan, La Guerche, Lamballe, Montfort and Saint-Brieuc sent letters of protest in reply to the letter that they had received from the community of Rennes; the officers of the présidial or the corporations joined this movement, as did the officers of the maîtres-perruquiers.Archives départementales d'Ille-et-Vilaine, C 1
See also Intendant
Sources Henri Fréville, L'Intendance de Bretagne (1689–1790). Essai sur l'histoire d'une intendance en Pays d'États au XVIIIe siècle, Thèse. Rennes, Plihon, 1953. 3 vol. Séverin Canal, Les origines de l'intendance de Bretagne, H. Champion, Paris, 1911, aussi publié par les Annales de Bretagne de 1911 à 1915.
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