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Born October 11, 1611 • Grenoble • France
Died September 1, 1671 (aged 59) • Paris • France
Title / Office foreign minister (1663-1671), France
Role In Dutch War • Peace of the Pyrenees • War of Devolution

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Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
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Jules Cardinal Mazarin
Jules, Cardinal Mazarin
French cardinal and statesman
François, chevalier de Créquy
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Philippe I de France, duc d’Orléans
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Jacques-Louis David: The Emperor Napoleon in His Study at the Tuileries
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The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
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Charles de Gaulle
Charles de Gaulle
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Napoleon III
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Georges Clemenceau.
Georges Clemenceau
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Philip IV
Philip IV
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Talleyrand
Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand, prince de Bénévent
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Francis I
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Louis XI
Louis XI
king of France
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
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Louis XV, detail of a portrait by Hyacinthe Rigaud; in the Chateau de Versailles
Louis XV
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Madame de Pompadour, detail of a portrait by François Boucher; in the National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh.
Jeanne-Antoinette Poisson, marquise de Pompadour
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Louis XIII
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Poincaré, Raymond
Raymond Poincaré
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Pierre Laval.
Pierre Laval
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