 Louis Phélypeaux, secretary for 50 years, was famous for the severity with which he fulfilled his duties.Disagreeing with the tolerant policies of the last years of the reign of Louis XV, and with those that the arrival of Turgot to power seemed to predict, he resigned from the post in 1775.After 1749 the department of Protestant affairs was attached to the department of the Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi.