François Claude Bernard Louis de Chauvelin (Paris, 1716 – Versailles, 1773), marquis de Chauvelin, was a French soldier, diplomat and writer.
One of his three children with his wife Agnés Thérèse Mazade d'Argeville (whom he married in 1759), was Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin.
He served in Italy and Flanders and became ambassador to Genoa and Turin.
He passed his final days in the French royal court as an intimate of Louis XV, dying of an apoplexy at the king's gaming table.
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