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Guillaume Dubois was born on September 6, 1656 in Brive-la-Gallarde, France, the son of a country doctor. His father kept a small drug store.
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Guillaume Dubois was born on September 6, 1656 in Brive-la-Gallarde, France, the son of a country doctor. His father kept a small drug store.
Dubois studied at the school of the Brothers of the Christian Doctrine at Brive where he took the veil at age 13. In 1672 he came to the college of St. Michel in Paris.
After his studies Dubois tutored in diverse families. In 1683 he was assistant tutor and in 1687 tutor to the Duke of Chartres, son of the Duke of Orléans, brother of the king, who succeeded to the title Duke of Orléans in 1701. When Orléans became regent for the five-year-old King Louis XV on the death of Louis XIV, he made Dubois his secret adviser and envoy for foreign affairs. Dubois devoted himself to promoting the dynastic interests of Orléans, whose claim to the succession to the crown of the sickly Louis XV was disputed by a rival claimant, King Philip V of Spain, a grandson of Louis XIV.
In order to gain support against Philip, Dubois concluded in 1716 an alliance with France’s traditional enemy, Great Britain. He pledged to back the British king George I against the Jacobites (supporters of Stuart claims to the British throne), and in return he obtained a guarantee of British support for the dynastic rights of Orléans. In 1717–1718 Dubois made similar agreements with the Dutch and Austrians, thereby forming the Quadruple Alliance. He was officially designated Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs in September 1718.
When the Chief Minister of Spain, Giulio Alberoni, tried to further Spain’s territorial ambitions by unilaterally invading Sardinia and Sicily in 1717–1718, Dubois joined the British in attacking Spain (1719). In June 1720 Philip V was forced to renounce his claims to the French throne and to dismiss Alberoni. Four months later, however, a severe financial crisis in France discredited Orléans’s regime and jeopardized Dubois’ position. Owing to this stance, as well as to his lavish bribery at the papal curia, he was made a cardinal in July 1721. In August 1722 he became prime minister and continued to direct foreign policy up to his death in 1723.
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