Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Jean-Baptiste Colbert

male, deceased (1683)
Mme de Sevigné, black pepper, sugar, beauvais, economy, colony
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...

Marguerite de la Sablière

female, deceased (1693)
Protestant, louis xiv, la fontaine, physics, mathematics, latin language…Charles Auguste, marquis de La Fare, Mme de Sevigné
Marguerite de la Sablière, friend and patron of La Fontaine, was the wife of Antoine Rambouillet, sieur de la Sablière (1624-1679), a Protestant fi...