François Marie Peyrenc de Moras [SEP] date of death
François Marie Peyrenc de Moras
François Marie Peyrenc de Moras (11 August 1718 – 3 May 1771) was a senior French politician.
In a family from the Cévennes, he was the son of Abraham Peyrenc de Moras (1686–1732), son of barber enriched in the system of Law, who built the Hôtel Biron (which since 1919 has housed the Musée Rodin), rue de Varenne in Paris and his wife, Anne-Marie-Josephe de Farges (1699–1738). He married Catherine Moreau Sechelles. Like
became the abbé Moras of the congrégation de Saint-Antoine, in Metz. At his death, M. de Moras left his wife and his three children a colossal fortune which would be of most use to the oldest, François Marie Peyrenc de Moras, in establishing himself and becoming first steward and then minister. His youngest son, commissioner of petitions for the palais, died relatively young. His daughter Anne-Marie, whose incredible engagement to Louis de Courbon was broken off, ended up remarrying the Count Merle de Beauchamp,