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Nicolas Desmarets, marquis de Maillebois

French minister
Also known as: Nicolas Des Marets, Marquis de Maillebois
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Nicolas Desmarets, marquis de Maillebois (born Sept. 10, 1648, Paris, Franceā€”died May 4, 1721, Paris) was the minister of finance during the last seven years of the reign (1643ā€“1715) of Louis XIV of France. A nephew of Louisā€™s great finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Desmarets rose rapidly in financial administration, but on Colbertā€™s death (1683) he was exiled for his alleged (though unproved) involvement in a counterfeiting scheme. Allowed to return to Paris in 1686, he...

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