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Born June 6, 1678 • Versailles • France
Died December 1, 1737 (aged 59) • Rambouillet • France
Role In War of the Spanish Succession
Forbin, detail from an engraving by L. Pierron, 17th century
Claude de Forbin
French military officer
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
Charles Le Brun: Portrait of King Louis XIV
Louis XIV
king of France
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
Jean-Baptiste Colbert
French statesman
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban
French military engineer
Francis Garnier
French naval officer
Marie-Jules Dupré
French naval officer
Louis-Adolphe Bonard
French admiral
Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve
French admiral
Villars, Claude-Louis-Hector, duc de
Claude-Louis-Hector, duke de Villars
French general
Francois de Vendome, duc de Beaufort, engraving by J.-B. Humbelot, 17th century
François de Vendôme, duke de Beaufort
French prince
Jean Ribaut
French naval officer
Charles Rigault de Genouilly
French admiral
Louis-Joseph, duc de Vendôme
Louis Joseph, duke of Vendôme
French general
André Jeanbon Saint-André
French clergyman
Roland-Michel Barrin, marquis de La Galissonnière
commandant-general of New France
François-Joseph-Paul, count de Grasse
French naval commander
A French hero
Jean Bart
French military officer
La Bourdonnais, Bertrand-François Mahé, count de
Bertrand-François Mahé count de la Bourdonnais
French officer
Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Torcy
French diplomat