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Jean Orry

French economist

Summary

French economist

Field	Value
name	Jean Orry
birth_name	Jean Louis Orry
birth_date
death_date
death_place	Paris
office	[[File:Lesser Royal Coat of Arms of Spain (1700-1868 and 1834-1930) Pillars of Hercules Variant.svg	37px]]
General Treasury Overseer of Bourbon Spain
monarch	Philip V
predecessor	José de Grimado (as Secretary of State of War and Tresury)
successor	Marquess of Vadillo (as General Superintendent of the Treasury)
1blankname	Secretary of the Universal Bureau
1namedata	José de Grimaldo
term_end	15 May 1715
term_start	30 November 1714

General Treasury Overseer of Bourbon Spain Jean Orry (4 September 1652 – 29 September 1719) was a French economist.

Life

Early career

Jean Orry was born in Paris on 4 September 1652 to Charles Orry, a merchant, and Madelaine le Cosquyno.

Orry studied law and entered Royal service as a lawyer, becoming a munitioneer for the army of Italy between 1690 and 1698, where he was able to demonstrate his skill at planning and organisation. In 1701, at the start of the Spanish War of Succession, Orry purchased his nobility and became an adviser to Louis XIV of France.

Work in Spain

Orry was sent to Spain by King Louis in 1701. There, Orry joined the self-styled Princesse des Ursins as the de facto rulers of Spain. Towards the end of his term there, by a royal decree composed by Orry on 23 December 1713, traditional local governments (the Cortes) were centralized by the creation of twenty-one provinces. These Consejos Territoriales were superseded by an intendant directly responsible to Orry. Some of the local councils, such as the Council of Castile retained influence through less direct channels.

Dismissal from Spain

Orry was dismissed through pressures brought to bear by the Parmesan contingent round the new queen, Elisabetta Farnese, and Giulio Alberoni. Orry was ordered from Spain on 7 February 1715. The King signed the Decreto de Nueva Planta later that year, revoking most of the historical rights and privileges of the different kingdoms that conformed the Spanish Crown, unifying them under the laws of Castile, where the Cortes regained some of its power.

Legacy

Giulio Alberoni, the cardinal who succeeded him in power, continued the main lines of his financial reorganization and his repression of the power of the royal councils in favour of a bureaucracy wholly dependent upon the central power. Orry's creation of secretaries of state and intendants continued as a significant element in Spanish governmental administration.

References

Bibliography

References

"Jean Orry Family Tree".

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