FOUQUET, NICOLAS

nēkôläˈ, 1615–80, superintendent of finance (1653–61) under King Louis XIV of France. His loyalty to Cardinal Mazarin during the Fronde helped to secure his position. By his transactions with financiers, to whom he allowed huge profits, he impoverished the treasury and accumulated a vast personal fortune. He spent large sums for his own purposes, notably on his mansion at Vaux, and was a patron of literary men, among them Jean Baptiste Molière and Jean de La Fontaine. He was created marquis of Belle-Isle. Aroused by Jean Baptiste Colbert, who gave the king reports of Fouquet's mismanagement of funds, and made jealous by a magnificent fete he attended at Vaux, Louis XIV ordered Fouquet's arrest in 1661. The trial took three years. Fouquet was sentenced (1664) to banishment, but the king, still resentful, changed the sentence to life imprisonment.

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Jean Fouquet and His Time
Book by Paul Wescher, Eveline Winkworth; Reynal & Hitchcock, 1947
Subjects: Fouquet, Jean--Ca. 1420-Ca. 1480
...comparable examples survived, in the altars of Enguerrand Charenton and Nicolas Froment at Villeneuve-les-Avignon and in the Altar of the Annunciation at Aix. In this respect Fouquets Nouans Pieta, the first achievement of French painting on a large...
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Artisans of Glory: Writers and Historical Thought in Seventeenth-Century France
Book by Orest A. Ranum; University of North Carolina Press, 1980
Subjects: France--History--17th Century--Historiography, Historians--France--Biography
...daylight. Paul Pellisson-Fontanier, a Huguenot from a robe family in Languedoc, was imprisoned for his fidelity to Nicolas Fouquet and converted to Catholicism before being named historiographer. The last example, Jean Racine, was a Jansenist...
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The Cambridge Modern History: Planned by the Late Lord Acton - Vol. 5
Book by A. W. Ward, G. W. Prothero, Stanley Leathes; University Press, 1908
Subjects: History, Modern
...department of finances, where Nicolas Fouquet still reigned as surintendant...told in an earlier volume how Fouquet had used the troubles of the Fronde...the wealth and the position of Fouquet were such that he was the most...
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French Painting in the Sixteenth Century
Book by L. Dimier; Duckworth and Company, 1904
Subjects: Painting, Renaissance, Painting--France--History
...forgotten, in the preceding age, Fouquet, Nicolas Froment, and Enguerrand Charonton...confirms my opinion; and as to Fouquet, it must be confessed that, though...interesting in its relation to Fouquet, whose tradition is here continued...
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The Dynastic State and the Army under Louis XIV: Royal Service and Private Interest, 1661-1701
Book by Guy Rowlands; Cambridge University Press, 2002
Subjects: France--Armaee--History, France--History--Louis Xiv, 1643-1715
...not coincide with his own. Ironically, after 1653 Nicolas Fouquet, Surintendant des finances, seems to have tried...6 See the recent article by Marc Fumaroli, Nicolas Fouquet, the Favourite Manque , in J. H. Elliott and L...
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journal articles on: Fouquet Nicolas  - 7 results

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From "curious" to Canonical: Jehan Roy de France and the Origins of the French School
Journal article by Stephen Perkinson; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 87, 2005
Subjects: Art history, Inscriptions, Painting
...the highlights of the room, reserving his "starred" notices instead for paintings attributed to Nicolas Froment, the Master of Moulins, and Jean Fouquet himself. He described the image of John in harsh terms, noting simply that "a certain brutality...
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Watteau's Pilgrimage to Cythera and the Subversive Utopia of the Opera-ballet
Journal article by Georgia Cowart; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 83, 2001
Subjects: Art criticism, Art history, Ballet, France, Louis XIV, King of France (1638-1715), Opera, Politics, Royalty, Watteau, Jean-Antoine (1684-1721)
...his Songe de Vaux (a tribute to La Fontaines patron, Nicolas Fouquet), and especially in his Les amours de Psyche et de Cupidon...for a literature of passion which, though scorned by Nicolas Boileau and the classicists, continued to enjoy the...
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The Duc D'antin, the Royal Administration of Pictures, and the Painting Competition of 1727
Journal article by Candace Clements; The Art Bulletin, Vol. 78, 1996
Subjects: Art history, France, Louis-Antoine de Pardaillan de Gondrin (Duc d Antin) (1665-1736), Patronage, Public administration, Public officials
...with the dismissal and disgrace of Nicolas Fouquet, his finance minister, the occasion for his appropriating not only Fouquets estate of Vaux-le-Vicomte but also...dramatically sudden dismissal of his Fouquet, the unpopular duc de Bourbon...
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Notice Board
Journal article; Sartre Studies International, Vol. 13, 2007
Subjects: Literary associations--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Literary associations--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Literary societies--Conferences, meetings and seminars, Literary societies--Rites, ceremonies and celebrations, Philosophers--Appreciation, Sartre, Jean-Paul--Appreciation
...on France 3. Directed by Ilan Duran-Cohen, and produced by Nicolas Traube, for France 3 and Arte, the scenario was written by...presented a modern burlesque version of Huis dos, produced by Nicolas Moy, from 15 to 25 September 2005 in Le Ptit Ouest Theatre...
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Reviewed Elsewhere
Journal article; Biography, Vol. 27, 2004
Subjects: Book reviewing--Bibliography, Book reviews--Bibliography
...master of imperfect triads" will be the best introduction to a thinker who was at once intuitive, flashing, and rigorous. Nicolas Weill. Le Monde des Livres, May 14, 2004: 8. Arafat, Yasir Yasir Arafat: A Political Biography. Barry Rubin and Judith...
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Power Struggles: Sheridan Morley on 17th-Century French Courtly Life, Japanese Kabuki and Inner-City Britain
Magazine article by Sheridan Morley; New Statesman, Vol. 132, July 21, 2003
...elegance, as Power tells the story of Nicolas Fouquet, the courtier who rose too close...seems torn between telling the Fouquet story straight - a man for all...wiser to stick with the story of Fouquet, especially as he is given a winningly...
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Some Hope
Magazine article by C.A.R. Hills; New Statesman, Vol. 134, February 14, 2005
Subjects: Books--Book reviews, Leaving Home (Short fiction collection)--Book reviews
...it, but the sources of her money are unclear. The subject of her study is the 17th-century French formal garden; Nicolas Fouquet and Andre le Notre preside, not Jim Callaghan. Emmas featureless and withdrawn mother, whose unspoken love is presumably...
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Behind the Mask
Magazine article by Massimo Polidoro; Skeptical Inquirer, Vol. 30, September 2006
Subjects: French history, 1589-1789 (House of Bourbon)--Investigations, French history, 1589-1789 (House of Bourbon)--Myths and legends, Political prisoners--Investigations, Political prisoners--Myths and legends
...Antonio Ercole Mattioli, Secretary of State to the Duke of Mantua; others think he was the French Minister of Finances, Nicolas Fouquet, who was arrested for embezzlement; some even say he was the French playwright, Moliere, who had ridiculed the powerful...


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Holiday 99: Value for Monet; THE ART OF HAVING A CULTURAL BREAK IN FRANCE
Newspaper article by Judith Simons; The Mirror (London, England), January 23, 1999
Subjects: Monet, Claude, Paris, France
...17th Century by finance minister Nicolas Fouquet. This egotist tore down villages...housewarming party, deduced that Fouquet had not acquired his wealth by...jailed. The King then commissioned Fouquets team of architects and landscape...


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encyclopedia articles on: Fouquet Nicolas  - 5 results

 
 
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Fouquet, Nicolas
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
FOUQUET, NICOLAS nekola fooka , 1615 80, superintendent...Colbert , who gave the king reports of Fouquets mismanagement of funds, and made jealous...he attended at Vaux, Louis XIV ordered Fouquets arrest in 1661. The trial took three years...
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Belle-Isle, Charles Louis Auguste Fouquet, Duc De
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...FOUQUET, DUC DE sharl lwe ogust fooka duk d bel-el , 1684 1761, marshal of France and diplomat; grandson of Nicolas Fouquet. His support of the claims of Charles of Bavaria (Holy Roman Emperor Charles VII) was in part responsible for Frances...
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Colbert, Jean Baptiste
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...comptroller general of finances (1665). Colbert helped to procure the downfall of the superintendent of finances, Nicolas Fouquet , for mismanagement. As Louis XIVs minister, Colbert scaled down the public debt by repudiating some obligations...
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Pinerolo
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...the 13th cent. It was often in French hands from 1536 to 1814, and the fortress was made a French state prison. Nicolas Fouquet , an official of Louis XIV, died in the citadel after 19 years of imprisonment (1680), and the Man with the Iron...
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French Art
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...such as is revealed in the works of Jean Fouquet. The Renaissance In the 16th cent...important painters were the landscape artists Nicolas Poussin and Claude Lorrain, who worked...portraiture flourished in the work of Nicolas de Largilliere and Jean-Marc Nattier...


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