Louis François Henri de Menon

After the death of his father in 1737, he became landowner of a considerable estate, where he began making great improvement by rationalising the work.

During the War of the Austrian Succession, de Menon fought in Bohemia, in Westphalia, and eventually integrated into the Regiment of Saxony.

Louis-François-Henri de Menon retired to his estates in the South of Mayenne, in the province of Anjou, in the commune of Villiers-Charlemagne.

[1] While the creditors were seizing his property, De Menon had turned over his administration just before his death in Paris on 25 February 1776.

It was visited by the English agronomist Arthur Young in 1787, who had especially travelled from England to Mayenne to investigate the work of De Menon.

English farmer found prominent remains of the improvements made during nearly forty years, and he gave an interesting account in first volume of travel reports.

Voltaire immortalised de Menon (Marquis of Turbilly) in his Epître à madame Denis sur l'agriculture (Epistle to Madame Denis on agriculture), stating:[4] However Voltaire is neither named nor identified his work in his Mémoire sur les défrichements (Memorandum on clearing).