Félix Le Pelletier de La Houssaye was Controller-General of Finances.
While serving as 1701 the Intendant of Alsace, in 1701, Le Pelletier issued a ruling permitting Jewish worship in clandestine synagogues in response to a complaint brought by an abbe. It reads, "The worship which the Jews established in Reichshoffen is not as public as one would have you believe. There is no synagogue per se, only, by a custom long established in this province, when there are seven Jewish families in one locale, those who compose them assemble, without scandal, in a house of their sect for readings and prayers."[1]