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Born August 29, 1619 • Reims • France
Died September 6, 1683 (aged 64) • Paris • France

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Joseph-Marie Terray
French minister
The Red Eminence
Cardinal Richelieu
French cardinal and statesman
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André Jeanbon Saint-André
French clergyman
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de Seignelay
French diplomat
Charles de Freycinet, photograph by Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon)
Charles-Louis de Saulces de Freycinet
French politician
Jacques Necker
Jacques Necker
French government official
Lazare Carnot, lithograph by Ambroise Tardieu, after an engraving by C.A. Forestier
Lazare Carnot
French military engineer
Léon Gambetta
Léon Gambetta
French statesman
Jacques Coeur, 19th-century engraving
Jacques Coeur
French royal adviser
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François-Michel Le Tellier, marquis de Louvois
French statesman
Turgot, portrait, 18th century; in the Musée de Versailles
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de l’Aulne
French economist
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Francis Garnier
French naval officer
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Maximilien de Béthune, duke de Sully
French statesman
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Marie-Jules Dupré
French naval officer
Paul Painlevé.
Paul Painlevé
French prime minister and mathematician
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Louis-Adolphe Bonard
French admiral
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Pierre-Charles-Jean-Baptiste-Silvestre de Villeneuve
French admiral
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Joseph Caillaux
French statesman
Joseph Cambon, engraving by Jean-Baptiste Verite
Joseph Cambon
French minister
Le Tellier, detail from a marble portrait bust by A. Coysevox; in the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève, Paris
Michel Le Tellier
French statesman