Claude de Mesmes, comte d'Avaux was a 17th-century French diplomat and public administrator. He was sent in various missions to Venice, Rome, Germany, Sweden, Denmark, and Poland by Richelieu.
- Occupation
- diplomat, envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary, politician
- Position held
- ambassador, Superintendent of Finances, Superintendent of Finances
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- 1595
- Died
- November 19, 1650
