Islands. With his customary brutality, he strove to repress the abuses that he believed he saw in the administration of Canada. He worked to set up a court of enquiry that would have been competent to rule on the accusations of fraud and price increases made against his department, and in this way to punish the concessionnaires, implicated in the embezzlements and other irregularities in Canada. On 13 October 1761, Louis XV replaced Berryer with Choiseul and, to keep him in royal service, named him garde des sceaux of France, a role he occupied until 15 September 1762. He had only one child, a daughter called Marie Élisabeth Berryer, who married Chrétien François de Lamoignon de Basville (garde des sceaux from 1787) on 4 September 1758. Bibliography McLynn, Frank. 1759: The Year Britain Became Master of the World. Pimlico, 2005 References External links Article on Berryer 1703 births 1762 deaths Counts of France Ancien Régime office-holders French Ministers of Justice Lieutenant generals of police of Paris Secretaries of State of the Navy (France)