DUBOIS, Cit•ft.l.kumt: 111150-1723). A Car dinal and prime minister of France. Ile W;I: Bern it Itrivegda -(la ilia rde. the son of a count ry doctor. and was educated at the ('ollbge faint .)lintel in Paris. Appointed tutor to the young 1)11, de ('hart re. Idle future Duke of Orleans).
he gained great influence user his pupil, whose cinstant companion he NN:1-. III peace and in war, and whips.. marriage to .:11ademi.iselle de a natural daughter of Louis NI V., 1)11hoi, brought idiom. Ills political career began ill 171/1. when he was made secretary to the Frclikli idtibass? at London. In 1715 he liceione p1i5ate seeretary to his pupil, not% the Regent. and quickly made him self the virtual ruler of Frain.... The key of his foreign policy 5•as the bridling of Philip of ;spoilt': ambition and the overthrow of Philip's minister, Alberoni. Dubois effected this by means of the famous union of England, frantic. and Holland in the Triple Alliance 117171. later changed to a Quadruple Alliance by the acce--ioll Of .‘11-Ilia.
This e0: litinn worked a revolution in Ereneli pol icy, since by the new arrangement friendship was made xvith England, all aneient enemy, and enmity declared against all old ally, "-pain. The last years of Dubois were tilled with great labors and high honors. In rapid succession he became Archbishop of Candira i I 17211), rd 1 (17211, and Prime Nlinistcr 117221. Ile died .August Ill, 1723. Dubois ha. been purUated b1 hi.
enemy. Saint-:simon. its a deformed and de bauched pander to the Regent. It is known now that malice has I he picture. Dubois was by no means an exemplary citizen or statesman. The political genius of the man, however, can hardly be denied. Consult : Ifi s ts • I corosnolidnon., fli, ail, du earditoo1 Dubois (Paris. ISIS) ; ('apetigue. cardinal Dubois (Paris, 1'41111 : and for at treat ment of 1)tilwis's foreign policy, lViesnier, Le of, Dutooi.s t 1,5 Inglois I Paris. 1591).