Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

male, deceased (1683)
Mme de Sevigné, black pepper, sugar, beauvais, economy, colony…Frenchministeroffinance, Controller-General of Finances, French East India Company, French, Member of the Académie française
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...

Claude D'Avaux

male, deceased (1650)
French, Thirty Years' War, peace of westphalia, count, diplomat, Republic of Venice…Treaty of Sztumska Wieś, Frenchministeroffinance
Count Claude de Mesmes d'Avaux was a 17th century French diplomat and public administrator, one of French leading diplomats in the first half of...