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Born November 17, 1800 • Paris • France • (Birthday in 4 days)
Died October 5, 1867 (aged 66) • France
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman
Jacques Coeur, 19th-century engraving
Jacques Coeur
French royal adviser
Turgot, portrait, 18th century; in the Musée de Versailles
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de l’Aulne
French economist
Sully, Maximilien de Béthune, duke de
Maximilien de Béthune, duke de Sully
French statesman
Joseph Cambon, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Verite
Joseph Cambon
French minister
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Joseph-Marie Terray
French minister
Calonne
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
French statesman
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Léon Say
French economist
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Nicolas Desmarets, marquis de Maillebois
French minister
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Étienne-Charles de Loménie de Brienne
French cardinal and statesman
Rouvier, engraving by Fortuné Méaulle after a portrait by Heinrich Meyer
Maurice Rouvier
premier of France
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Nicolas-François, Count Mollien
French statesman
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
French government official
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Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
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Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
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Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
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Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
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Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Painting by Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres showing Joan of Arc in armor holding a banner at an altar during the coronation of Charles VII in Reims Cathedral, with figures praying behind her.
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine
Full-length portrait of Cardinal Richelieu by Philippe de Champaigne, showing him in red clerical robes holding a red book, standing beside a balustrade with a draped curtain behind.
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman