Jean de Robethon
Jean de Robéon (1722) - Hanoverian and British politician.
Robethon was one of the French huguenots who escaped when King Louis XIV issued an edict from Fontainebleau (1685), abolishing the Nantes edict of 1598, establishing a tolerance for Protestants in France.
Robethon was for some time the secretary of William III, a friend of the Huguenots and the enemy of King Louis. Later, he was on the service of Prince George of Lüneburg-Celle. After the death of the latter in 1705, he entered the service of Jerzy Ludwika of Hanover (since 1714 the King of Great Britain, George I of Hanover), who after 1714 took him with him to London. Jean de Robéthon and other ministers Mecklenburg's Andreas Gottlieb Bernstorff and Johann Kasper von Bothmer had a considerable influence on British foreign policy in 1714, which was eventually contested by the British Parliament and some of its leaders, Sir Robert Walpole. Bibliography
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