Orry purchased his nobility and became an adviser to Louis XIV.

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

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