Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis o Torcy
Jean Baptiste Colbert | |
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Marquis o Tourcy | |
![]() 1692 portrait bi Rigaud. | |
Full name
Jean Baptiste Colbert | |
Born | 14 September 1665 Paris, Fraunce |
Dee'd | 2 September 1746 (aged 80) Hôtel de Torcy, Paris, Fraunce |
Noble faimily | Colbert |
Faither | Charles Colbert |
Mither | Françoise Béraud |
Thrift | diplomat, nobleman |
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Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis o Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), wis a French nobleman an diplomat, who negotiated some o the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War o the Spaingie Succession (1701–1714), in which the dying Keeng Carlos II o Spain named Louis XIV's grandson, Philippe, Duke o Anjou, heir tae the Spaingie throne, eventually founding the line o the Bourbons o Spain. His official portrait wis paintit bi Rigaud. Colbert is commemoratit in the "rue de Torcy", in Paris. He also creatit the hôtel de Torcy in Paris. He wis also a friend o Louise Bénédicte de Bourbon, duchesse du Maine, wife o Louis Auguste de Bourbon, Duke o Maine (an illegitimate son o Louis XIV an Madame de Montespan. The Duchess o Maine creatit him a knicht o the Order o the Skep bee.
- Members o the French Academy o Sciences
- 1665 births
- 1746 daiths
- Fowk frae Paris
- 18t-century French fowk
- 17t-century French fowk
- Fowk o the Regency o Philippe d'Orléans
- Fowk o the Ancien Régime
- Marquiss o Fraunce
- Knichts o the Order o the Skep bee
- French diplomats
- Officers o the Order o the Haly Spirit
- Colbert faimlie