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Born November 17, 1800 • Paris • France
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
Joseph-Marie Terray
French minister
Calonne
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne
French statesman
Léon Say
French economist
Nicolas Desmarets, marquis de Maillebois
French minister
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
Nicolas-François, Count Mollien
French statesman
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
French government official
Melchior de Polignac
French clergyman and statesman
Philippe-Emmanuel Gondi
French military commander
Bernard-Louis, marquis de Chauvelin
French general and diplomat
Bernard-François, marquis de Chauvelin
French diplomat and politician
Alain Juppé
prime minister of France
Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
Napoleon I
emperor of France
Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres: painting of Joan of Arc
St. Joan of Arc
French heroine