Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem

Charles François Paul Le Normant de Tournehem (30 December 1684– 27 November 1751) was a French financier, a fermier-général, or tax-farmer.

He raised her and educated her with care, and he married her in 1741 to his nephew, Charles-Guillaume Le Normant d'Étiolles, from whom she was separated in 1745 at the request of Louis XV.

"Without artistic prejudices," Fiske Kimball observed,[1] "he was a man of ability, honesty and simplicity, who devoted himself to efficient administration."

Le Normant de Tournehem reinstated the post of premier peintre du Roi which had been allowed to lapse, in favour of Charles-Antoine Coypel, upon whose artistic advice he wisely depended.

Coypel's own advisors were the comte de Caylus, the brilliant and tireless antiquary and founder of archaeology, who had been an advisor to Orry and was a close friend of the connoisseur Pierre-Jean Mariette, and Abbé Leblanc, an early critic of the excesses of the Rococo and an advocate of a chastened simplicity in the arts of design.