Raymond Balthazar Phélypeaux

Raymond Balthazar Phélypeaux (c. 1655 – 21 October 1713), seigneur du Verger, was a French army officer, lawyer and diplomat.

He was a lieutenant general, military councillor of state, envoy extraordinary to Cologne, ambassador extraordinary to Savoy in 1700, and then governor general of the French West Indies.

His grandfather, Raymond Phélypeaux, was secretary of state for foreign affairs.

[1] Phélypeaux was sent as ambassador extraordinary to Savoy in 1700, where he found that a secret treaty was being prepared against the interests of France.

He had difficulty convincing his minister of this, and attracted the enmity of Marie Adélaïde of Savoy, wife of Louis, Duke of Burgundy and daughter of Victor Amadeus II of Sardinia.