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Born August 29, 1619 ‱ Reims ‱ France
Died September 6, 1683 (aged 64) ‱ Paris ‱ France

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Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert (detail of a bust by Antoine Coysevox)
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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.
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Joseph-Marie Terray
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay
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Charles de Freycinet, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon)
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Jacques Necker
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Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
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LĂ©on Gambetta
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Jacques Coeur, 19th-century engraving
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Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de l’Aulne
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Maximilien de BĂ©thune, duke de Sully
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Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
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Louis-Adolphe Bonard
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Joseph Caillaux
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Joseph Cambon, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Verite
Joseph Cambon
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Le Tellier, detail from a marble portrait bust by A. Coysevox; in the BibliothĂšque Sainte-GeneviĂšve, Paris
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