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Antoine-Louis Rouillé, comte de Jouy (French pronunciation:[ɑ̃twanlwiʁujekɔ̃tdəʒwi], 7 June 1689 – 20 September 1761) was a French statesman andcomte ofJouy-en-Josas.
Born inParis, the son of Marie-Louis-Paulin Rouillé and Marie-Angélique d'Aquin, he was in succession conseiller to theparlement de Paris (1711),maître des requêtes (1717), intendant of commerce (1725), conseiller d'État and finally commissaire to theFrench East India Company (1744). NamedSecretary of State for the Navy to replaceMaurepas, he worked to reorganise theFrench Navy. He left this ministry on 24 July 1754 to hold that ofForeign Secretary. As Foreign Secretary, Rouillé generally pursued a pacific policy, trying to avoid escalation of the increasingly bitter colonial feud with Britain in North America. His role in French foreign policy, however, was not central, as most of the important initiative during the time of his ministry was conducted personally by KingLouis XV and his favoriteMadame de Pompadour. Rouillé was unable to prevent the escalation of the Anglo-French conflict intoopen war in 1756. Although he had little to do with the diplomatic maneuvers which led to theDiplomatic Revolution of 1756, Rouillé, as Foreign Secretary, was one of the French signatories of the firstTreaty of Versailles (1756), which joined France and Austria together in an alliance. Soon after the conclusion of that alliance led to open war between France and its former ally, Prussia, in late 1756, Rouillé was replaced as Foreign Secretary on 28 June 1757 byCardinal de Bernis. He died inNeuilly.
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