Jean-Jacques de Mesmes

Jean-Jacques de Mesmes
Comte d'Avaux
Portrait by Antoine Masson
Tenure1673–1688
PredecessorJean-Antoine de Mesmes
SuccessorJean-Antoine de Mesmes
Bornc. 1630
Died9 January 1688
Paris
Spouse(s)Marguerite Bertrand de la Bazinière
Issue
Detail
Jean-Antoine, Henri, & others
OccupationPrésident à mortier

Jean-Jacques de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux, vicomte de Neufchâtel (1630–1688) was a French magistrate, intendant of Soissons, and Président à mortier of the Parlement of Paris. He developed the town of Avaux-la-Ville, which is now called Asfeld. He was a member of the Académie française. He was brother of Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, the diplomat, and father of Jean-Antoine de Mesmes, the premier president of the Parlement of Paris.