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Jean Baptiste Colbert

The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Jean Baptiste Colbert , 1619-83, French statesman. The son of a draper, he was trained in business and was hired by Cardinal Mazarin to look after his financial affairs. On his deathbed, Mazarin recommended Colbert to King Louis XIV, who made him comptroller general of finances (1665). Colbert helped to procure the downfall of the superintendent of finances, Nicolas Fouquet , for mismanagement. As Louis XIV's minister, Colbert scaled down the public debt by repudiating some obligations and reducing the value of others and set up a system of accounts in order to keep the government with... Read more
Jean Baptiste Colbert
Jean Baptiste Colbert The French statesman Jean Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683) was one of the greatest ministers of Louis...of the economic system of prerevolutionary France. Jean Baptiste Colbert was born at Reims on Aug. 29, 1619, of a family of... Read more
Colbert, Jean Baptiste
Colbert, Jean Baptiste (1619–83) French statesman, the principal exponent of mercantilism . He came to prominence as an adviser to Cardinal Mazarin . From 1661, when Louis XIV began his personal rule, Colbert controlled most aspects of government: reforming taxation and manufacturing, reducing ... Read more

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The greatest royal minister? Jean-Baptiste Colbert: placing Colbert in the circumstances of his times, Geoffrey Treasure shows that he was much more than an efficient bureaucrat. (Profiles In Power).
; The Man and his Reputation That Jean-Baptiste Colbert was a remarkable Frenchman is...necessarily limited nature of Colbert's achievements. The regime that...XIV began his personal rule and Colbert embarked on his great ministry... Read more
Colbert was here; French economic nationalism.(Jean-Baptiste Colbert)
; ...rich intellectual history. Jean-Baptiste Colbert is back in fashion. For many...s glorious past. But now Colbert is back with a vengeance...seems to be a new term for Colbertism. And unlike his labour-market...Mestrallet, the boss of Suez and Jean-Francois Cirelli, the head...an ... Read more
Re-bonjour, Monsieur Colbert; The state as owner.(Jean-Baptiste Colbert)
; ...bureaucrat, not a British economist. Jean-Baptiste Colbert brought industrial policy to the...doubt inspired by the picture of Colbert that hangs in the House of Representatives...Sadly the main lesson from modern Colbertism is simple: return companies to the...vulnerable to dreams of ... Read more
Between Colbert and Adam Smith.(Jean-Baptiste Colbert)(political theory and literature)
; ...imperious by an overdose of political correctness. The last two are states of mind, one echoing Adam Smith, the other Jean-Baptiste Colbert, one liberal, the other statist, and of course also viscerally antagonistic. What are they really like, and what... Read more
Comite Colbert: updating France's luxuries. (luxury goods industries)
; COMITE COLBERT UPDATING FRANCE'S LUXURIES PARIS -- Ever since Louis XIV made Jean-Baptiste Colbert his superintendent for buildings, arts, tapestries and manufactures in 1661, the French have had something of a reputation for...race for the world's growing luxury goods market. In particular, ... Read more
Bertram Alan "Buddy" Colbert a 28-year resident of Mundelein.(Obituaries)(Obituary)
; Bertram Alan Buddy Colbert a 28-year resident...Bertram Alan Buddy Colbert, 81, will be celebrated...also a descendent of Jean Baptiste Colbert, the finance minister...dam, now called the Colbert Dam. He assisted the...sister, Sr. M. Martin Colbert, SSND; his son, Bruce... Read more
Monsieur Colbert or Madame Thatcher? (elections called by French Pres Jacques Chirac are not likely to lead to end of the centralized state in favor of a free market)(Brief Article)
; ...Where does he really stand? Although the gospel of Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-83), Louis XIV's financial guru and a prime...It is seen rather as the nation's embodiment. As Colbert's king put it: L'@etat, c'est moi. Although recent... Read more
Old is the new new in the weird world of e-business
; JEAN Baptiste Colbert was a bit of a whizz-kid. As Louis XIV...to a pithy slogan on a T-shirt then Jean Baptiste is a shoe-in. Get rich is the defining...lot of hard work. Get Rich, indeed, as Colbert urged. But first, get real. * John Hatfield... Read more
Rear Window: Change comes for the Sun King's cigarettes
; ...arts, industry and the economy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert is remembered as King Louis XIV...suing them for extra taxes. But Colbert left a more enduring mark on his...guardian of the language, but it was Colbert who created the Academy of Sciences... Read more
Anniversaries
; Births: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, statesman and founder of the French Navy, 1619; John Locke, philosopher, 1632; Raphael Georg Kiesewetter, Edler von Wiesenbrunn, historian of music, 1773; Jean-Auguste- Dominique Ingres, painter, 1780; Richard Rush, lawyer and statesman, 1780; Oliver Wendell Holmes, ... Read more

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