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2 unusual facts about Joseph Pellerin


Joseph Pellerin

Pellerin was born at Marly, near Versailles the 27 April 1684 and died 30 August 1782 at his château of Plainville in Picardy.

Pellerin married into another Versailles family in 1714 when he wed Marie-Anne, niece of Michel-Richard Delalande, court composer to Louis XIV and one of the great exponents of the French baroque motet, among his many other masterpieces.


Arnaud II de La Porte

His great-granduncle was Michel Richard Delalande, court composer to Louis XIV, his grandfather was First Commissary of the Marine Joseph Pellerin, his father Arnaud I de La Porte was First Commissary as well, and his uncle, Joseph Pellerin Jr. was Intendant of the Naval Armies, all under Louis XV and Louis XVI.


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