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'''Louis-Basile de Bernage''' (baptized 4 February 1691, Paris; died 12 May 1767, Paris)<ref>[http://bit.ly/2N1DJzT Notice de personne: Bernage, Louis-Basile de"], [[BnF]].</ref> was a French [[Aristocracy (class)|aristocrat]], ''[[seigneur]]'' of Saint-Maurice, Vaux, and Chassy, and a politician during the ''[[ancien régime]]''. From 1743 to 1758, he was the [[Provost (civil)|Prévot]] des Marchands (Provost of Merchants, a post equivalent to [[mayor]]) of Paris.
==Parents==
His father was Louis de Bernage (1663–1737), a councilor of the [[Grand Conseil]], and his mother was Anne-Marie Rouillé (c.1664-1755), daughter of Louis Rouillé, secretary of the king and Controller General of the Post.<ref name=Versailles>[http://bit.ly/2SHCUBL "Bernage (Louis de)"]. Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. [http://bit.ly/2N3B6xr Archive copy].</ref>
==Political career==
In 1712, Bernage became an ''avocat général'' ([[magistrate]]) of the tribunal of the Requêtes de l'Hôtel, a [[court]] located in the [[Palais de Justice]].<ref name=frWiki>[http://bit.ly/2SKhL9Y "Louis-Basile de Bernage de Saint-Maurice" (22 janvier 2018 à 23:12)], French Wikipédia.</ref> In 1714, he was elevated to ''maitre des requêtes'' ([[Master of Requests (France)|Master of Requests]]).<ref name=Versailles/>
Intendant of [[Montauban]] in 1720 and 1723, he succeeded his father as intendant of [[Languedoc]] from 1725 to 1743.<ref name=frWiki/>
A [[Conseiller d'État (France)|Conseiller d'État]] on a semester basis in 1734 and an ordinary in 1743, he was Prévôt des Marchands of Paris from 26 July 1743 to August 1757.<ref name=frWiki/> In this capacity, he acted as the director of the [[Paris Opera|Opéra]] from August 1749 to 28 November 1753, when the position was assigned to Eugène de Thuret, who had previously acted as the director in the 1730s. Bernage, however, as Prévôt des Marchands, continued to supervise the management of the Opéra for the eight years it was administered by the City of Paris.<ref>Charlton 2014.</ref>
==Descendants==
He married Marie Anne Moreau on 11 February 1714. Their children included:<ref name=frWiki/>
* Anne Marie Renée de Bernage de Vaux de Bernage (1714-1786)
* Jean Louis de Bernage de Saint-Maurice (1716-1780), Conseiller d’État, [[grand'croix]] de l'[[ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis]]
* Élisabeth Jeanne Thérèse de Bernage de Saint-Maurice
==Notes==
==Bibliography==
* Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, François-Alexandre de (1771). [http://bit.ly/2N03bWw "Louis-Basile de Bernage, vol. 2, p. 354], in ''Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des familles nobles de France'', second edition. Paris: Veuve Duchesne.
* Charlton, David (2014). "New Light on the ''Bouffons'' in Paris (1752–1754)", ''Eighteenth-Century Music'', vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 31–54.
[[Category:1691 births]]
[[Category:1767 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Paris]]
[[Category:Directors of the Paris Opera]]
[[Category:Ancien Régime office-holders]]
==Parents==
His father was Louis de Bernage (1663–1737), a councilor of the [[Grand Conseil]], and his mother was Anne-Marie Rouillé (c.1664-1755), daughter of Louis Rouillé, secretary of the king and Controller General of the Post.<ref name=Versailles>[http://bit.ly/2SHCUBL "Bernage (Louis de)"]. Centre de recherche du château de Versailles. [http://bit.ly/2N3B6xr Archive copy].</ref>
==Political career==
In 1712, Bernage became an ''avocat général'' ([[magistrate]]) of the tribunal of the Requêtes de l'Hôtel, a [[court]] located in the [[Palais de Justice]].<ref name=frWiki>[http://bit.ly/2SKhL9Y "Louis-Basile de Bernage de Saint-Maurice" (22 janvier 2018 à 23:12)], French Wikipédia.</ref> In 1714, he was elevated to ''maitre des requêtes'' ([[Master of Requests (France)|Master of Requests]]).<ref name=Versailles/>
Intendant of [[Montauban]] in 1720 and 1723, he succeeded his father as intendant of [[Languedoc]] from 1725 to 1743.<ref name=frWiki/>
A [[Conseiller d'État (France)|Conseiller d'État]] on a semester basis in 1734 and an ordinary in 1743, he was Prévôt des Marchands of Paris from 26 July 1743 to August 1757.<ref name=frWiki/> In this capacity, he acted as the director of the [[Paris Opera|Opéra]] from August 1749 to 28 November 1753, when the position was assigned to Eugène de Thuret, who had previously acted as the director in the 1730s. Bernage, however, as Prévôt des Marchands, continued to supervise the management of the Opéra for the eight years it was administered by the City of Paris.<ref>Charlton 2014.</ref>
==Descendants==
He married Marie Anne Moreau on 11 February 1714. Their children included:<ref name=frWiki/>
* Anne Marie Renée de Bernage de Vaux de Bernage (1714-1786)
* Jean Louis de Bernage de Saint-Maurice (1716-1780), Conseiller d’État, [[grand'croix]] de l'[[ordre royal et militaire de Saint-Louis]]
* Élisabeth Jeanne Thérèse de Bernage de Saint-Maurice
==Notes==
==Bibliography==
* Aubert de La Chesnaye Des Bois, François-Alexandre de (1771). [http://bit.ly/2N03bWw "Louis-Basile de Bernage, vol. 2, p. 354], in ''Dictionnaire de la noblesse, contenant les généalogies, l'histoire et la chronologie des familles nobles de France'', second edition. Paris: Veuve Duchesne.
* Charlton, David (2014). "New Light on the ''Bouffons'' in Paris (1752–1754)", ''Eighteenth-Century Music'', vol. 11, no. 1, pp. 31–54.
[[Category:1691 births]]
[[Category:1767 deaths]]
[[Category:People from Paris]]
[[Category:Directors of the Paris Opera]]
[[Category:Ancien Régime office-holders]]
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