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1619 --- Colbert was born of a merchant family on August 29, at Reims, France. Son of Nicolas Colbert, seigneur de Vandières (1590-1661), and Mariane Pussort (1588-1659), daughter of the seigneur de Cernay.
1648 --- He married Marie Charron de Ménars December 13 in Saint-Eustache, Paris[1]; she is the daughter of Jacques Charron (1603-1669), Seigneur de Ménars et de Nozieux, and Marie Bégon (1604-1646).
1651 --- French Cardinal Mazarin, in political exile, employed the skilled administrator as his emissary in Paris. Their mutually profitable relationship created lifelong opportunities for Colbert.
1662 --- Colbert, one of five executors of Cardinal Mazarin's estate,[2] succeeds in breaking ground for the construction of "Collège Mazarin", a year after Mazarin death. The buildings and campus takes twenty-five years to complete, opening in 1688[2] as the Collège des Quatre-Nations[3], one of the colleges of the historic Université de Paris.
Recommended to the King by Mazarin, Colbert is given opportunity to audit the practices and outcomes of Surintendant des Finances, Nicolas Fouquet. Impressed with the findings and recommendations, Louis XIV allows Colbert to implement his proposals to ensured all men, regardless of statue, would be assessed taxes equitably, and pay the treasury timely.
1664 --- To improve the net income of its citizens, France increases the tariff on specific imports, as recommended by Colbert. Uniting with Jean Talon, his stature as a power broker reaches its apex.
1665 --- King Louis XIV appoints Colbert as the first Contrôleur Général, tasking him to continue reversing the losses during the tenure of Surintendant des Finances, Nicolas Fouquet. Colbert recommends Jean Talon be appointed New France's first Intendant, which the King does on March 23. Four days later, on March 27, Louis XIV places his signet upon the list of duties Talon is to accomplish, written in its entirety by Colbert himself. With his friend settled in the new world, the Contrôleur Général has purposefully situated himself for another promotion.
1668 --- Appointed Secretary of State for the Navy.
1683 --- Colbert died in Paris on September 6 and was interred in Saint-Eustache church[4].
The French Minister of Marine, Jean Baptiste Colbert, reproached the Jesuits for not teaching the Indians the French language. King Louis XIV wanted to make the clergy subordinate to the Governor of New France. He inadvertently entrenched a belief that the French language makes a culture rather than principles, beliefs and values of the people.[6]
Colbert organizes the Company of The West Indies to exploit the resources of the French Colonial possessions of New France.[7] Granted a monopoly on the fur trade, the business men are also granted conditional seigniory and proprietorship in the new world.
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