feb 17, 1665 - Jean-Baptiste Colbert
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Colbert reformed the French economy, and recovered some 100,000,000 livres in back taxes and misappropriated funds.
Rule, John C. “Louis XIV, Roi-Bureaucrate.” Louis XIV and the Craft of Kingship, Ohio State University Press, 1970.
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