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Louis de Béchameil, marquis de Nointel (1630–1703) was a French ''financier'' and patron of the arts. ==Life== Son of Jean-Baptiste Béchameil,〔Bérenger, Jean & Jean Meyer. (1976) ''La Bretagne à la fin du XVII° siècle'', Klincksieck. p. 7. ISBN 2-252-01889-5.〕 Louis was a rich tax farmer and superintendent to the house of the Duke of Orléans; he was ''intendant'' of Brittany and of the ''généralité'' of Tours. In 1697,〔The seigneurie had been raised to a marquisate in 1654, in favour of Edouard Olier. (Cailleaux 1961.i.)〕 Béchameil bought the ''marquisat'' of Nointel and later became Louis XIV's head steward. Following a reorganisation of the Brittany kingdom's Chamber of Accounts of 1669, a commission (1680) was set up and led by Béchameil de Nointel, as an intendant where he wrote a report to attest what he saw. This document, which mentions the frauds of the Chamber's deposits, shows the favors given to the crown and tries to end such abuses, led to a new law proposed by Charles Colbert to the Brittany Chamber in 1681. In 1698, Béchameil published another document focusing on the fiscal system. Béchameil was an art lover who was directed by the King to found the Academy at Angers, for which he delivered the opening address and served as director.〔Mary Elizabeth Storer, "Information Furnished by the ''Mercure Galant'' on the French Provincial Academies in the Seventeenth Century" ''PMLA'' 50.2 (June 1935:444-468), p. 466.〕 He was a patron of Watteau, who painted a series of arabesque panels with figures for the hôtel de Nointel, Paris, doubtless, from the nature of the allegories, for a small dining chamber.〔The hôtel had become known to historians under the name of a later owner, as the hôtel de Poulpry; a still later owner, the comte de La Béraudière, sold the panels two at a time, until the last two figured in his sale of 18 March 1885 (Jean Cailleaux, "Decorations by Antoine Watteau for the hôtel de Nointel", ''The Burlington Magazine'' 103 No. 696 (March 1961), "Supplement", pp. i-v, p. i).〕 Béchameil and his wife, Marie Colbert (d. April 3, 1686) had two children, Marie Louise Béchameil de Nointel (1661 – April 2, 1740) and Louis Béchameil de Nointel (1649 – December 31, 1718). 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Louis de Bechamel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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