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    Jean-Baptiste Colbert

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  1. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca › en › articleJean-Baptiste Colbert - The Canadian Encyclopedia

    Jan 11, 2021 · Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French statesman, comptroller general of finances during the reign of Louis XIV (born 29 August 1619 in Reims, France; died 6 September 1683 in Paris, France). He was the king’s right-hand man and his work led to an unprecedented boost for commerce, industry, financial organization, justice, and royal navy forces.

  2. en.chateauversailles.fr › jean-baptiste-colbertJean-Baptiste Colbert 1619-1683 - Palace of Versailles

    Full name. Jean-Baptiste Colbert. Title. Comptroller-General of Finances. Life at Court. From 1619 to 1683. Reign of Louis XIV. His traces at Versailles. Scion of a family involved with international trade since the sixteenth century, son of a cloth merchant, Colbert entered the service of the state in 1640.

  3. www.britannica.com › summary › Jean-Baptiste-ColbertJean-Baptiste Colbert summary | Britannica

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert, (born Aug. 29, 1619, Reims, France—died Sept. 6, 1683, Paris), French statesman. He was recommended to Louis XIV by Jules Mazarin, whose personal assistant he had been. He engineered the downfall of Nicolas Fouquet, and thereafter he served the king both in his private affairs and in the administration of the kingdom.

  4. www.encyclopedia.com › jean-baptiste-colbertJean Baptiste Colbert | Encyclopedia.com

    Jun 8, 2018 · The French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) was one of the greatest ministers of Louis XIV and is generally regarded as the creator of the economic system of prerevolutionary France. Jean Baptiste Colbert was born at Reims on Aug. 29, 1619, of a family of prosperous businessmen and officials.

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  6. shc.stanford.edu › arcade › publicationsJean-Baptiste Colbert’s Republic of Letters | Stanford ...

    How do we fit Foucault, and his master, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, figures of both political repression and learning, into narratives of the Republic of Letters informed by traditions of the ethics of learning and the Habermasian paradigm of the rise of a public sphere of civil society?

  7. kids.britannica.com › Jean-Baptiste-Colbert › 273725Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Students - Britannica Kids

    Jean-Baptiste Colbert. (1619–83). In Colbert, 17th-century France had a wizard of finance. He first served Cardinal Mazarin and later King Louis XIV. He brought order and financial gains to the affairs of these rulers of church and state. Jean-Baptiste Colbert was born at Reims, France, on Aug. 29, 1619.

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  9. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfplusA Career in the Making: The Education of Jean-Baptiste ...

    A Career in the Making: The Education of Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Torey John C. Rule This excursion into the biography of Jean-Baptiste Colbert de Torcy has a dual purpose. It offers an exercise in biographical reconstruc-tion, which draws on the rich but uneven evidence of Torcy's youth, his

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