Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis o Torcy

Jean Baptiste Colbert
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

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.