1076036 | FRANCE. René de Froullay. (Marshal de Tessé and General of the galleys,1669-1707). 1713 AE Jeton. PCGS MS63BN (Brown). Possibly by Thomas Bernard. Paris. 29.5mm. 5.56gm. LE MAL DE TESSE GD DE SPAGNE GLL DES GALLERES DE FRANCE. Coat of arms of René de Froullay, Marshal of Tessé / ET ADHUC EXORITUR PELAGO NUMEN// GALERES/ 1713. Deities of the sea; date in exergue. Dugnoille 4797; van Loon IV-643.2; Feuardent-I-1472; Senk 359; cf. Neumann V.30587.

On the peace negotiations in Utrecht and the armistice between France and England.


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René de Froulay, Comte de Tessé (1648–1725) was a French soldier and diplomat during the reign of Louis XIV and the 1715–1723 Regency.

In 1706, he commanded Bourbon forces besieging Barcelona but they were over-stretched; British control of the seas made it impossible to prevent the city being resupplied and the Bourbon army was forced to retreat. Despite this, in 1707 he commanded the field army that prevented Prince Eugene taking the key French naval base of Toulon. This appears to have been his last active military command. In 1708, he acted as French Ambassador in Rome, then Spain in 1723, when he persuaded Philip V to resume the Spanish throne after the death of his eldest son Louis I. He was also Governor General of the Perche and his home province of Maine.