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Fouquet — Louis XIV’s Superintendent of Finances, disgraced in 1661
Mazarin’s financier, he lent to the king out of his own fortune, built Vaux-le-Vicomte and protected La Fontaine and Molière. Six months after the cardinal’s death the king had him arrested at Nantes by d’Artagnan; tried for three years and sentenced to banishment, he saw the penalty aggravated to life imprisonment and died in prison. (Editorial synthesis)
Recorded office of Fouquet: superintendency of Finances (from 1653 to 5 September 1661, his arrest). (source: Larousse and Encyclopædia Universalis)
Fouquet was born on 27 January 1615. (source: Archives nationales)
Fouquet was born in Paris. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica and Larousse)
Fouquet died on 23 March 1680. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
Fouquet died in Pignerol. (source: Encyclopædia Britannica)
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