Honoré Boyer de Fonscolombe

Honoré Boyer de Fonscolombe
Born 1683
Died 1743
Residence Château de Fonscolombe, Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, France
Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe, Aix-en-Provence, France
Nationality French
Occupation Seller of goods
Lawyer

Honoré Boyer de Fonscolombe (1683-1743) was a French aristocrat, lawyer and public official.

Biography

Early life

Honoré Boyer de Fonscolombe was born in 1683.[1] His father, Denis Boyer, was a Consul in the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence.[2]

Career

He made his fortune by selling furniture and silk in Aix-en-Provence.[1]

He became a prosecutor in the Parliament of Aix-en-Provence in 1726.[3] He was appointed Secretary to King Louis XV of France (1710–1774) on November 11, 1741.[1][2][3][4][5] As a result of this appointment, he earned the marquisate of Fonscolombe (inherited by all his direct male heirs).[3]

Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe in Aix-en-Provence

Personal life

He was married to Jeanne Carnaud.[2][6] They had five sons and five daughters:

In 1720, he commissioned the Château de Fonscolombe in Le Puy-Sainte-Réparade, listed as a monument historique since 1989.[7][8][9] In 1743 (shortly before his death), he also inherited the Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe on the Rue de Gaston de Saporta in Aix from his late sister, listed as a monument historique since 1989.[10][11]

He died in 1743. Étienne Laurent Joseph Hippolyte Boyer de Fonscolombe (1772-1853) and Emmanuel de Fonscolombe (1810-1875) were two of his descendants.

References

  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 De Saint-Pierre de Rome à Aix-en-Provence: un trésor de l'art italien retrouvé dans le patrimoine aixois, Musée du Vieil Aix, 2005, p. 42
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 François-Alexandre Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, Schlesinger Frères, 1863, Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des familles nobles de France,
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Nicolas-Jules-Henri Gourdon de Genouillac, Albert-Dieudonné-Louis-Fidèle-Emmanuel Piolenc, Nobiliaire du Département des Bouches-du-Rhône: histoire, généalogies, 1863 [books.google.co.uk/books?id=kUNTAAAAcAAJ&pg=PA56&dq=Emmanuel+de+Fonscolombe&hl=en&sa=X&ei=OAemUpSZKPHn7Abc0oCgDg&ved=0CDcQ6AEwAQ#v=onepage&q=Emmanuel de Fonscolombe&f=false]
  4. ↑ Taupin d'Auge, Armorial de l'épiscopat français, Librairie nouvelle, p. 224
  5. ↑ Pierre-Augustin Guys, Marseille ancienne et moderne, Vve Duchesne, 1786, p. 43
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 Recueil de mémoires et autres pièces de prose et de vers, qui ont été lus dans les séances de la Société des amis des sciences, des lettres, de l'agriculture et des arts, à Aix, Académie des sciences, agriculture, arts et belles-lettres d'Aix, 1844
  7. ↑ Les coteaux d'Aix-en-Provence: Château de Fonscolombe
  8. ↑ Aix-en-Provence Tourism
  9. ↑ French Ministry of Culture
  10. ↑ Institut de Management Public et de Gouvernance Territoriale: L'Hôtel Boyer de Fonscolombe
  11. ↑ René Borricand, Les Hôtels particuliers d'Aix-en-Provence, 39 rue Espariat, 1971, p. 58