king Louis XIV, Colbert aimed the first blow at the man accused of being the greatest of the royal embezzlers, the superintendent Nicolas Fouquet. Fouquet's...
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Jacques Nicolas Colbert (14 February 1655, in Paris – 10 December 1707, in Paris) was a French churchman. Youngest son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, he...
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Louisiana politician Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1655–1707), French churchman, son of Jean-Baptiste Colbert James Colbert (1890–1970), Irish politician...
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Isaac Casaubon 1614–1645: Nicolas Rigault 1645–1651: Pierre Dupuy 1651–1656: Jacques Dupuy [fr] 1656–1676: Nicolas Colbert [fr]; Pierre de Carcavi (1663-1683)...
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"[CEH] L'arrestation de Nicolas Fouquet (2/2)". Vexilla Galliae (in French). Retrieved 2022-02-02. Inés Murat (1980). Colbert. Paris. pp. 420–421. ISBN 2-213-00691-1...
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modern studies criticise the Colberts, father and son, for concentrating on ships rather than infrastructure. In 1675 Nicolas Boileau dedicated his ninth...
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of Villiers-sur-Fère, a benefice granted him by his patron, Jacques-Nicolas Colbert. In this retirement he devoted the remainder of his life to his ascetical...
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Vic (also archbishop of Auch) 1661–1664: vacant 1664–1707: Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (also archbishop of Rouen) 1707–1717: Roger de La Rochefoucauld 1717–1771:...
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Jean-François Regnard, French comic poet (d. 1709) February 14 – Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, French churchman (d. 1707) February 15 – August, Duke of Saxe-Merseburg-Zörbig...
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Marshal Nicolas Soult, who was pursuing Sir John Moore's British army in its retreat to A Coruña. On the Astorga road not far from Villafranca, Colbert's troopers...
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