부산대학교 도서관

(b Châlons-sur-Marne, Jan 17, 1727; d Paris, 1794). French administrator, writer, collector, amateur draughtsman and engraver. In 1756 he purchased the office of Intendant of the Menus-Plaisirs du Roi, the department of the royal household responsible for court festivities, ceremonies and spectacles, and exerted inexhaustible energy as Grand Ordonnateur during the last 30 years of the monarchy. From 1762, the year in which he purchased a second intendancy, he kept a Journal in which he described such court festivities as those for the marriage of the Dauphin (later Louis XVI) and Marie-Antoinette in the Opéra at Versailles in 1770. Papillon de La Ferté proved to be an able administrator, as his correspondence, memoirs and settlements testify, managing a large budget of about 2,150,000 livres a year and running the Comédie Française and the Comédie Italienne, as well as various festivities and ceremonies, for example the funeral of Louis XV in 1774 at the abbey church of St Denis, near Paris. From ...