Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

male, deceased (1683)
Jean-Baptiste Colbert served as the French minister of finance from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV. He was described by Mme de...
Michel Chamillart

Michel Chamillart

male, deceased (1721)
Michel Chamillart or Chamillard (1652 - 14 April 1721) was a French statesman, a minister of King Louis XIV of France. He was born in Paris of a...
Nicolas Desmarets

Nicolas Desmarets

male, deceased (1721)
Nicolas Desmarets, Marquis De Maillebois (September 10, 1648, Paris - May 4, 1721, Paris) was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of...

Étienne de Silhouette

male, deceased (1767)
Étienne de Silhouette was a French Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV. He was born in Limoges where his father Arnaud de Silhouette (...
Joseph Marie Terray

Joseph Marie Terray

male, deceased (1778)
Joseph Marie Terray was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France. Terray, a priest, was appointed an ecclesiastical...
Jean Moreau de Séchelles

Jean Moreau de Séchelles

male, deceased (1761)
Jean Moreau de Séchelles was a French official and politician. Made a maître des requêtes October 13, 1719, he was the intendant of Hainaut in Val...

Louis Phélypeaux

male, deceased (1727)
Louis Phélypeaux, marquis de Phélypeaux (1667), comte de Maurepas (1687), comte de Pontchartrain (1699), known as the chancellor de Po...

Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux comte de Maurepas

male, deceased (1781)
Jean-Frédéric Phélypeaux, comte de Maurepas was a French statesman. He was born at Versailles, the son of Jérôme Phélypeaux, secretary of state...
Suzanne Curchod

Suzanne Curchod

female, deceased (1794)
Suzanne Curchod was the wife of Jacques Necker. She hosted one of the most celebrated salons of the Ancien Régime. Daughter of the pastor of the v...