Jean-Baptiste Colbert

great and genius financial mind of Jean Baptiste Colbert as his finance minister in 1665. Allow me to bring you back to how it all began. Born in the great city of Reims, France in 1619, Jean Baptiste Colbert began his life as a member of the bourgeoisie, or middle class. His family was considerably poor and as a result struggled to afford his education. In fact, his family was dependant on his potential success from the beginning, luckily he did not let them down. Jean was the eldest sibling, and the

King Louis XIV and Jean-Baptiste Colbert had an important historical impact on France’s economy. Colbert become Finance Minister to Louis XIV in 1665. In the years before Colbert, the previous minister of finance Mazarin had France in a turmoil of financial neglect and corruption. Over his lifetime as finance minister, Colbert brought in new measures with Louis XIV to re-establish France as a place of expanding industry and prosperity. Louis XIV was an absolute monarch. After the death of Mazarin

XIV and Peter the Great were famous rulers of the late 17th- early 18th Centuries. Both took the throne at a young age and both had many strengths and weaknesses. Louis XIV had many strengths during his reign as ruler of France. Appointing Jean Baptiste Colbert as his minister of finance made some of his greatest strengths and accomplishments. One strength was that of mercantilism, which is an economic theory under which a country increases its wealth by exporting more goods than it imports. By accomplishing

as world leader in export. Louis XIV’s finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert organized the workers in companies that were regulated to ensure quality. This also prevented competition among each other, but helped them to compete against foreign imports. Louis XIV imposed a strict dress code that made certain there was ready need for French made clothing (Chrisman-Campbell, 2015). They would also speak of Louis XIV’s effect on the arts. Colbert and the king shared the belief of idolizing the monarchy

L’État, c’est moi” (“I am the state”). Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth century, absolute monarchs ruled many countries and states. In an absolutist state, power and sovereignty is embodied within one person. Absolute kings attempted to control competing institutions and jurisdictions in their state, and secured power with the nobility. An absolute monarchy has total political power over its sovereign state and people. King Louis XIV of France and Tsar Peter the Great of Russia were both

King Louis XIV of France used the Baroque style of art in an effective attempt to represent himself as an absolute monarch due to many stylistic choices this particular style has that would enable him to get his power across more effectively than any other style. Most noticeable of all aspects of the Baroque style is the amount of detail and stuff in the painting. Textures make the fabrics look like real velvet and silk that are way more expensive than other types of cloth. Realism that the Baroque

tariffs from other countries involved in shipping. Colbert promoted this tactic as one of the corner stones of the mercantile system. Unfortunately the King paid more attention to his wars than to French international business, and failed to strengthen the navy. The Dutch, who were at the forefront of the ship building industry, took advantage of Louis's lax policies and monopolized French trade. (Doc 7) Even through persistent warnings from Colbert, Louis XIV refused to change his mind and continued

appearing in various ballets and became quite accomplished. It was in 1653 when there was a fundamental moment in the development of ballet. It was in this year that King Louis XIV introduced Giovanni Baptista Lulli (Jean Baptiste Lully) as a composer to his (Louis XIV) court balls. “Jean Baptiste Lully was an Italian musician, composer, dancer, mime and musical administrator. As the supervisor of the ball in the court of Louis XIV he required unified ballet productions instead of a string of dancers.” He

He was not the first, however, to develop a theory of evolution. As scientists developed an increasing interest in the natural world, it became evident to many influential thinkers of the late eighteenth century, such as the Comte de Buffon and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck that species changed gradually over time. While these prior scientists had ideas on evolution, their theories were often misguided and failed to threaten the status quo of society to any significant degree. Darwin’s theory of evolution

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck Jean-Baptiste Lamarck was a Frenchmen born August 1, 1744 in Bazentin, Picardy, France. He was born as the youngest of 11 children to a noble, but not rich family. Most people of the Lamarck family went into the military, but he was pushed to a career in the church. He went to Jesuit college in the late 1750s. He studied for a year until his father died. When Lamarck’s father died, he gave up his career in the church and joined the French army in the fight against Prussia in