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	Nicolas Fouquet - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Fouquet's fortune now surpassed even Mazarin's, but the latter was too deeply implicated in similar operations to interfere, and was obliged to leave the day of reckoning to his agent and successor Jean-Baptiste Colbert.
		Upon Mazarin's death Fouquet expected to be made head of the government; but Louis XIV was suspicious of his poorly dissembled ambition, and it was with Fouquet in mind that he made the well-known statement, upon assuming the government, that he would be his own chief minister.
		Fouquet has been identified with the Man in the Iron Mask, but this theory is quite impossible.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Nicolas_Fouquet (929 words)

	Nicolas Fouquet
		Nicolas Fouquet (1615 — March 23, 1680) was viscount of Melun and of Vaux, marquis of Belle-Isle, superintendent of finance in France under Louis XIV.
		He had spent enormous sums in building a palace on his estate of Vaux, which in extent, magnificence, and splendour of decoration was a forecast of Versailles.
		A report of his trial was published in Holland, in 15 volumes, in 1665—1667, in spite of the remonstrances which Colbert addressed to the States-General.
	www.sciencedaily.com /encyclopedia/nicolas_fouquet (933 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Colbert - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The postmaster of Paris, a spy of Fouquet's, read the letter, leading to a dispute which Mazarin attempted to suppress.
		In January 1664 Colbert became the superintendent of buildings; in 1665 he became controller-general; in 1669, he became minister of the marine; he also gained appointments as minister of commerce, of the colonies and of the palace.
		With the abolition of the office of superintendent and of many other offices dependent upon it, the supreme control of the finances became vested in a royal council.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert (1925 words)

	40. The White Horse and the Black Page 2
		He observed that the superintendent had relaxed into a trot, which was to say, he, too, was favoring his horse.
		Fouquet turned round, and saw behind him, within a hundred paces, his enemy bent over the neck of his horse.
		Fouquet did turn round at the noise, and looking D'Artagnan full in the face, opened, with his right hand, the part of his dress which concealed his body, but he did not even touch his holsters.
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	Jean-Baptiste Colbert
		In January 1664, Colbert became the superintendent of buildings; in 1665, he became controller-general; in 1669, he became minister of the marine; he was also appointed minister of commerce, the colonies and the palace.
		Supported by the young king Louis XIV he aimed the first blow at the greatest of the extortioners—the bold and powerful superintendent, Fouquet; whose fall, in addition, secured his own advancement.
		The office of superintendent and many others dependent upon it being abolished the supreme control of the finances was vested in a royal council.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/je/Jean-Baptiste_Colbert.html (1810 words)

	Ten Years Later - Alexandre Dumas - Free Online Library
		The superintendent did not stop: on alighting from his carriage, he, at the same bound, sprang through the doorway, traversed the apartments and gained his cabinet, where he declared he would shut himself up to work, commanding that he should not be disturbed for anything but an order from the king.
		The reason of this was, Fouquet set himself a task, and when this task was once set, in one hour's work he, by himself, did what another would not have accomplished in a day; always certain, consequently, provided he was not disturbed, of arriving at the close in the time his devouring activity had fixed.
		As to Fouquet, he retook, with his head hanging down and a fixed cloud on his brow, the path of the subterranean passage along which ran the metal wires that communicated from one house to the other, transmitting, through two glasses, the wishes and signals of hidden correspondents.
	dumas.thefreelibrary.com /Ten-Years-Later/1-54 (3015 words)

	The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas: Chapter 39
		As Fouquet was alighting from his carriage to enter the Castle of Nantes, a man of mean appearance went up to him with marks of the greatest respect, and gave him a letter.
		Fouquet opened the letter and read it, and instantly a vague terror, which d’Artagnan did not fail to penetrate, was expressed by the countenance of the first minister.
		Fouquet walked with a deliberate step into the little corridor, where Messieurs de Brienne and Rose were at work, while the Duc de Saint-Aignan, seated on a chair, likewise in the corridor, appeared to be waiting for orders with feverish impatience, his sword between his legs.
	www.online-literature.com /dumas/man_in_the_iron_mask/39 (2525 words)

	By Robert Wernick (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fouquet was a man of infinite energy, charm, resources, wit and ambition.
		Fouquet was certain that His Majesty, a hot- blooded boy whose main interests seemed to be chasing stags and skirts, would tire of business in a few weeks and leave the running of the country to him.
		Three weeks later, he summoned Fouquet to the Louvre to discuss some details of the loan of 88,000 livres the superintendent had made to him to meet the payroll of his navy.
	www.robertwernick.com /articles/vaux-le-vicomte.htm (3428 words)

	Alexandre Dumas - The Vicomte de Bragelonne - Volume II - Chapter XLVI - Aramis's Correspondence. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		Fouquet was accompanied by a person whom the chevalier now saw for the first time.
		Madame de Bellière had, in fact, left Fouquet about an hour previously, after having passed two days with him; and apprehensive lest his remembrance of her might be effaced for too long a period from the heart she regretted, she dispatched a courier to him as the bearer of this important communication.
		Fouquet was still delightedly inhaling the perfume of his epistle.
	dave.pluckerbooks.com /works/dumasa/3musk3-2/chapter46.html (2437 words)

	Louis XIV: Dictatorship by Divine Right
		By the beginning of May he was determined to bring down Fouquet as soon as the collection of taxes would not be endangered by his fall.
		Fouquet had been ill enough advised to try to provide himself with a territorial base by fortifying Belle-Isle and the Breton coast, and Louis made up his mind to overthrow him in the very province where he felt most secure.
		As he was being conducted to a barred carriage, the prisoner asked his captor hlot to attract attention', thus demonstrating his utter lack of understanding of Louis, wl-o wanted precisely such attention, as a way of telling the world that the time had come for him to take charge of his own affairs.
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		The air was still perfumed or infected, whichever way it may be considered, with the odor of the fireworks; the wax-lights were dying away in their sockets; the flowers fell unfastened from the garlands; the groups of dancers and courtiers were separating in the salons.
		Fouquet, almost entirely alone, was being assisted by his valet-de-chambre to undress, when M. d'Artagnan appeared at the entrance of the room.
		Such is the happy privilege of certain natures, which in that respect resemble the lightning or the thunder: every one recognizes them; but their appearance never fails to arouse surprise and astonishment, and whenever it occurs the impression is always left that the last visitation was the loudest or brightest and most violent.
	unseelie.org /books/dumas.man-in-iron-mask/47.txt (3260 words)

	40 The White Horse and the Black.
		He observed that the superintendent had relaxed into a trot, which was to say, he, too, was favouring his horse.
		Fouquet hastened to the brink of the river, dipped some water in his hat, with which he bathed the temples of the musketeer, and introduced a few drop between his lips.
		When Fouquet perceived that sinister machine, he said to D’Artagnan, who cast down his eyes, ashamed of Louis XIV., “There is an idea that did not emanate from a brave man, Captain d’Artagnan; it is not yours.
	books.rakeshv.org /html/ironm11/ironm11ch40.html (2205 words)

	Encyclopedia: Madame de SÃ©vignÃ© (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		It was announced on indubitable authority that communications from her had been found in the coffer where Fouquet kept his love letters.
		She protested that the notes in question were of friendship merely, and Bussy (one of the not very numerous good actions of his life) obtained from Le Teffier, who as minister had examined the letters, a corroboration of the protest.
		Nicolas Fouquet (1615 — March 23, 1680) was viscount of Melun and of Vaux, marquis of Belle-Isle, superintendent of finance in France under Louis XIV.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Madame-de-S%E9vign%E9 (3561 words)

	A Popular History of France From The Earliest Times - Volume V. of VI by Francois Pierre Guillaume Guizot eBook by ...
		Fouquet, who was born in 1615, and had been superintendent of finance in conjunction with Servien since 1655, had been in sole possession of that office since the death of his colleague in 1659.
		Fouquet, however, was not certain of the cardinal’s good faith; he bought Belle-Ile to secure for himself a retreat, and prepared, for his personal defence, a mad project which was destined subsequently to be his ruin.
		Whilst the superintendent was dreaming of the ministry and his friends calling him the Future, when he was preparing, in his castle of Vaux-le-Vicomte, an entertainment in the king’s honor at a cost of forty thousand crowns, Louis XIV., in concert with Colbert, had resolved upon his ruin.
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	Savary
		His relations with the superintendent, Fouquet, enabled him to devote his abilities to the service of the State; the contract for collecting the revenues of crown lands was given to him.
		After Fouquet's fall Savary gained the favour of the Chancellor Séguier, and as the numerous arbitrations with which Savary was charged in all commercial questions daily increased his prestige, he was summoned in 1670 to take an active part in the commission for the revision of the laws pertaining to trade.
		So well did he acquit himself there that Poussort, president of this commission, named the ordinance of 1673 the "Code Savary." On the appearance of this ordinance Poussort and several other commissioners requested Savary to publish in book form the numerous memoirs read by him before the Commission during the preparation of the ordinance.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/s/savary.html (545 words)

	COLBERT - LoveToKnow Article on COLBERT (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		His earliest tentative was the drawing up of a mmoire to Mazarin, showing that of the taxes paid by tl~e people not one-half reached the king.
		The paper also contained an attack upon the superintendent Nicholas Fouquet (q.v.), and being opened by the postmaster of Paris, who happened to be a spy of Fouquets, it gave rise to a bitter quarrel, which, however, Mazarin repressed during his lifetime.
		It was some time before he assumed official dignities; but in January 1664 he obtained the post of superintendent of buildings; in 1665 he was made controller-general; in 1669 he became minister of the marine; and he was also appointed minister of commerce, the colonies and the kings palace.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /C/CO/COLBERT.htm (1955 words)

	Paul Pelisson-Fontanier (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		He became secretary to Superintendent Fouquet in 1652, master of accounts at Montpellier in 1659, counsellor of the king in 1660.
		When Fouquet was discharged, Pelisson stood faithfully by him and was imprisoned in the Bastille (1661), where he remained four years.
		There he wrote his three "Mémoires" in defence of Fouquet.
	www.catholicity.com /encyclopedia/p/pelisson-fontanier,paul.html (262 words)

	The Man in the Iron Mask - Chapter 19 - Alexandre Dumas - Read Print
		Fouquet colored, and then assuming an air of resignation, said: “You are right, Monsieur; you have taught me a lesson that I ought not to have provoked.
		Fouquet drew a deep sigh, rose from his seat, made three or four turns in his room, and finished by seating himself, with an expression of extreme dejection, upon his magnificent bed with velvet hangings and trimmed with the costliest lace.
		Fouquet rose from his seat, passed his arm round d’Artagnan’s neck, and clasped him in a close embrace, while with the other hand he pressed the captain’s hand.
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	CHARLES LOUIS AUGUSTE FOUQUET,COMTE BELLE-ISLE - LoveToKnow Article on CHARLES LOUIS AUGUSTE FOUQUET,COMTE BELLE-ISLE (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		, and later Duc, DE (1684-1761), French soldier and statesman, was the grandson of Nicholas Fouquet, superintendent of finances under Louis XI\T., and was born at Villefranche de Rouergue.
		Although his family was in disgrace, he entered the army at an early age and was made proprietary colonel of a dragoon regiment in 1708.
		His brother, Louis CHARLES ARMAND FOUQUET, known as the Chevalier de Belle-Isle (1693-5746), was also a soldier and a diplomatist.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /B/BE/BELLE_ISLE_CHARLES_LOUIS_AUGUSTE_FOUQUET_COMTE.htm (825 words)

	47 How Anne of Austria gave one Piece of Advice to Louis XIV., and how M. Fouquet gave him Another.
		The news of the extreme illness of the cardinal had already spread, and attracted at least as much attention among the people of the Louvre as the news of the marriage of Monsieur, the king’s brother, which had already been announced as an official fact.
		Fouquet perceived this movement, and with a politeness at once easy and respectful, advanced towards the queen, so as not to disturb the king.
		Fouquet perceived that the king, instead of reading, was looking at him; he turned half round, therefore, and while continuing his conversation with the queen, faced the king.
	www.rakeshv.org /books/html/vicom11/vicom11ch47.html (2359 words)

	Memoirs Of Louis XIV And His Court And Of The Regency — Volume 15 by duc de Saint-Simon, Louis de Rouvroy eBook ...
		Fouquet, who received no news, hoped for some from him, and had a great desire to see him.
		The unhappy superintendent opened wide his ears and eyes when he heard this young Gasepan (once only too happy to be welcomed and harboured by the Marechal de Grammont) talk of having been general of dragoons, captain of the guards, with the patent and functions of army-general!
		This much curbed their intercourse, as far as Fouquet was concerned, for he, believing the brain of Lauzun completely turned, took for fairy tales all the stories the Gascon told him of what had happened in the world, from the imprisonment of the one to the imprisonment of the other.
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	46 Aramis’s Correspondence.
		Brief as the conversation was, De Lorraine saw, with the most unfeigned displeasure, the figure of his unknown becoming dimmer in the distance, and fast disappearing in the darkness.
		Madame de Belliere had, in fact, left Fouquet about an hour previously, after having passed two days with him; and apprehensive lest his remembrance of her might be effaced for too long a period from the heart she regretted, she dispatched a courier to him as the bearer of this important communication.
		Colbert arrived in the centre of the circle blazing with light; Fouquet awaited his approach, unmoved and with a slightly mocking smile.
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		The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas Chapter LXVII How the King, Louis XIV, Played His Little Part As Fouquet was alighting from his carriage to enter the Castle of Nantes, a man of mean appearance went up to him with marks of the greatest respect, and gave him a letter.
		Fouquet was made to wait for a moment upon the terrace of which we have spoken,- a terrace which abutted on the little corridor, at the end of which the cabinet of the King was located.
		A white horse is in waiting for you behind the esplanade!" Fouquet recognized the writing and the zeal of Gourville.
	unseelie.org /books/dumas.man-in-iron-mask/67.txt (1625 words)

	Jean-Baptiste Colbert
		The paper also contained an attack upon the superintendent Nicholas Fouquet, and being opened by the postmaster of Paris, who happened to be a spy of Fouquet's, it gave rise to a bitter quarrel, which, however, Mazarin repressed during his lifetime.
		As superintendent of public buildings he enriched Paris with boulevards, quays and triumphal arches; he relaid the foundation-stone of the Louvre, and brought Bernini from Rome to be its architect; and he erected its splendid colonnade upon the plan of Claude Perrault, by whom Bernini had been replaced.
		He took to bed, it is true, immediately afterwards, refusing to receive all messages from the king; but his constitution was utterly broken before, and a post-mortem examination proved that he had been suffering from stone.
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	The Man in the Iron Mask: The White Horse and the Black Horse
		His fury assumed the tints of rage; he doubted himself; he suspected that Fouquet had buried himself in some subterranean road, or that he had changed the white horse for one of those famous fl ones, as swift as the wind, which d’Artagnan at St. Mandé had so frequently admired, envying their vigorous lightness.
		Fouquet did turn round at the noise, and looking d’Artagnan full in the face, opened with his right hand the part of his dress which concealed his body, but he did not touch his holsters.
		When Fouquet perceived that sinister machine, he said to d’Artagnan, who cast down his eyes as if ashamed of Louis XIV, “There is an idea which is not that of a brave man, Captain d’Artagnan; it is not yours.
	www.hoboes.com /html/FireBlade/Dumas/IronMask/IronMask40.html (2168 words)

	or LEBRIXA LEBRIJA - LoveToKnow Article on or LEBRIXA LEBRIJA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
		On his return to Paris Le Brun found numerous patrons, of whom Superintendent Fouquet was the most important.
		that he at once ennobled Le Brun (December, 1662), who was also created first painter to his majesty with a pension of 12,000 livres, the same amount as he had yearly received in the service of the magnificent Fouquet.
		From this date all that was done in the royal palaces was directed by Le Brun.
	64.1911encyclopedia.org /L/LE/LEBRIJA_or_LEBRIXA.htm (751 words)

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