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NICOLAY

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Originally appearing in Volume V19, Page 663 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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NICOLAY , the name of a See also:

French See also:family of Vivarais which came rapidly into legal prominence at the end of the 15th See also:century. See also:Jean Nicolay (d. 1527), son of a bailli of Bourg See also:Saint-Andeol, became councillor at the See also:parlement of See also:Toulouse and afterwards at the See also:Grand See also:Council, See also:chancellor of the See also:kingdom of See also:Naples, Maitre See also:des Requetes, and, finally, first See also:president of the Chambre des Comptes of See also:Paris (15o6). This last See also:post was filled continuously up to the Revolution by his descendants. See also:Antoine Chretien de Nicolay (1712–1777) became See also:marshal of See also:France in 1775. His See also:brother, Aymar Chretien See also:Francois See also:Michel (1721–1769), See also:bishop of See also:Verdun, was first See also:almoner of See also:Marie Josephe of See also:Saxony, wife of the dauphin See also:Louis (d. 1765), and her influential counsellor. See A. de Boislisle, Pieces justificatives pour servir a l'histoire des premiers presidents de la Chambre des Comptes (1873), and Histoire de la niaison de Nicolay (1875).

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