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Andrу was born on 22 June in 1653 in Lodeve, France, the son of a collector of taxes.
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Andrу was born on 22 June in 1653 in Lodeve, France, the son of a collector of taxes.
At the age of six Andrу was sent to Paris to the Jesuit College de Clermont, then to the College d'Arcour, where he studied philosophy, theology, and languages.
In 1668 Andry was appointed canon in Montpellier. At the age of 24 he became the confessor of the wife of Louis XIV Maria Theresa. After the death of the queen, he occupies the same position with the king. Being introduced to the court, he soon acquired influential friends. Educated by the Jesuits in Paris, he entered the priesthood, and became in 1679, through the influence of Cardinal Bonzi, almoner to Maria Theresa, queen of Louis XIV, and in 1698, bishop of Frejus. Seventeen years of a country bishopric determined him to seek a position at court. He became tutor to the king's great-grandson and heir, and in Spite of an apparent lack of ambition, he acquired over the child's mind an influence which proved to be indestructible. On the death of the regent Orleans in 1723 Fleury, although already seventy years of age, deferred his own supremacy by suggesting the appointment of Louis Henri, Duke of Bourbon, as first minister. In 1726, after the exile of the Duke de Bourbon and his influential favorite, the Marquise de Pri Fleury, at the age of 73, he became Cardinal and the de facto ruler of France. Striving for individual power, he tried to remove the king from state administration. After receiving upbringing from the Jesuits, Fleury encouraged persecution of the Janssenites. In 1733, contrary to his will, France took part in the war for the Polish inheritance, but instead of large-scale assistance to Poland Versailles sent to the theater of war only one small squadron with 1500 troops of landing. Nevertheless, the war ended successfully for France: Lorraine withdrew to the exiled Stanislaus Leszczynski, and after his death was to move to France, in addition to the Bourbons secured the Naples throne. At the same time Versailles had to guarantee a pragmatic sanction and recognize Augustus III as the Polish king. In 1741 France entered the war for the Austrian inheritance. At its height, January 29, 1743, Fleury died. After Fleury's death, the king abolished the post of first minister and announced that he would reign by himself.
Fleury’s major achievements were in foreign policy. He at first formed a close working relationship with the British prime minister, Sir Robert Walpole, and strove to reduce the tensions that were mounting between Great Britain and Spain.
He had enriched the royal library by many valuable oriental MSS.
Fleury is a secondary character in the novel "Chevalier d'Armanthal" by Alexandre Dumas.
Fleury appears as one of the characters in Nina Sorotokina's novel Three from the Navigational School.
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In foreign policy he tried to keep the peace, however much the war was necessary. Considering an alliance with England as a pledge of peace, he strove with all his might to achieve this.
He was a member of the French Academy (since 1717), the Academy of Sciences (since 1721) and the Academy of Inscriptions and Fine Literature (since 1725).
Affable and cheerful by nature, he was also very ambitious and tenacious.
