of Nicolas Fouquet. Fouquet was Louis XIV's finance commissioner and aspired to take the place of Mazarin as the king's advisor. Fouquet was also a lover...

However, Louis first had to neutralize Nicolas Fouquet, the powerful Superintendent of Finances. Although Fouquet's financial indiscretions were not very different...

Charles VII (22 February 1403 – 22 July 1461), called the Victorious (French: le Victorieux) or the Well-Served (le Bien-Servi), was King of France from...

miniature of about 1460 from the Grandes Chroniques de France by Jean Fouquet, and also a print of 1609, show a somewhat less substantial structure than...

(1909–1970) Georges Yatridès (1931–2019) Félix Ziem (1821–1911) Achille Zo (1826–1901) Robert Campin (1378–1445) Jean Fouquet (1425–1481) Jean Clouet (1480–1541)...

Superintendent of Finances was abolished following the arrest of Nicolas Fouquet; his powers were transferred to First Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, who...

Chroniques de France, by Jean Fouquet, 1450s Charlemagne surveying the works of the Palatine Chapel, Aachen, by Jean Fouquet, 1450s Charlemagne (right) by...

pronounced there on her behalf until the 1800s. In 1849, the Bishop of Orlėans Félix Dupanloup delivered an oration that attracted international attention and...

Mucha, is now on display at the Carnavalet Museum. The Fouquet firm, headed by Georges Fouquet, and its jewelers borrowed from many different periods...

(active 1415–1440), painter Simon Marmion (c. 1420–1489), illuminations Jean Fouquet (1420–1481), painter, illuminations Jean Colombe (1430–1493), illuminations...