* 1619 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French politician ( d. 1683 )

But, the recently appointed French Secretary of State, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, was trying to promote farming in the colony and was opposed to exploration and trapping.

** Louis XIV the Sun King and his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, 1643 – 1715

His military architect, Vauban, became famous for his pentagonal fortresses, and Jean-Baptiste Colbert supported the royal spending as much as possible.

The law, originally conceived by French Finance Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert prior to his death in 1683, was finalized by his son the Marquis de Seignelay and presented to the King for his signature in 1685.

This French mercantilism was best articulated by Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( in office, 1665 – 1683 ), though policy liberalised greatly under Napoleon.

French finance minister and mercantilist Jean-Baptiste Colbert served for over 20 years.

The height of French mercantilism is closely associated with Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister for 22 years in the 17th century, to the extent that French mercantilism is sometimes called Colbertism.

However, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the French foreign minister, successfully argued that whether France accepted all or a part of the Spanish Empire, it would still have to fight Austria, which did not accept the nature of the partition described by the Treaty of London.

* August 29 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance ( d. 1683 )

* September 6 – Jean-Baptiste Colbert, French minister of finance ( b. 1619 )

The base was greatly enlarged by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the minister of Louis XIV, who also commissioned his chief military engineer Vauban to strengthen the fortifications around the city.

In 1660, his Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert ordered Sébastien Le Prestre de Vauban to build a new arsenal and to fortify the town.

Further additions were made by Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Vauban.

In 1683 the Society of Suriname was set up, modelled on the ideas of Jean-Baptiste Colbert to profit from the management and defence of the Dutch Republic's colony.

Louis XIV's minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert's oak Forest of Tronçais, planted for the future use of the French Navy, matured as expected in the mid-19th century: " Colbert had thought of everything except the steamship ," Fernand Braudel observed.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert, finance minister under Louis XIV, rebuilt the wharves in masonry and otherwise improved the harbour.

* Colbert de Beaulieu, Jean-Baptiste and Fischer, Brigitte ( 1998 ) Receuil des Inscriptions gauloises ( RIG ) 4: les légendes monétaires.

During Louis XIV's reign, his minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert brought French luxury industries, like textile and porcelain, under royal control and the architecture, furniture, fashion and etiquette of the royal court ( particularly at the Château de Versailles ) became the preeminent model of noble culture in France ( and, to a great degree, throughout Europe ) during the latter half of the seventeenth century.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert led the king to believe that his minister's magnificence was funded by the misappropriation of public funds.

In December 1665, Rochefort was chosen by Jean-Baptiste Colbert as a place of " refuge, defense and supply " for the French navy.

Laws were passed to enforce this concept, such as the English Navigation Acts, and edicts issued by French Minister of Finance Jean-Baptiste Colbert.

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.

Jean-Baptiste Colbert (; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683 ) was a French politician who served as the Minister of Finances of France from 1665 to 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.

* Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 ), French minister of finance under King Louis XIV

* Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Minister of Finances ( 1619 – 1683 ),

On the other hand, the foreign minister, Hugues de Lionne ( 1611 – 1671 ), and the finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 ), both would have preferred to see a peace treaty signed quickly, as the costs of continuing the war were incalculable ( so far it had cost most than 18 million livres ), and the international conditions did not make a victory seem likely.

* Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 )

In contrast to Spain, the French, under Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( 1619 – 1683 ), the minister of finance, had begun to industrialize their economy, and thus, were able to become, initially at least, the benefactors of the flow of wealth.

* 1671 – Jean-Baptiste Rousseau, French poet ( d. 1741 )

* 1651 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French educational reformer and Catholic saint ( d. 1719 )

* 1768 – Jean-Baptiste Bessières, French marshal ( d. 1813 )

* 1744 – Jean-Baptiste Lamarck, French scientist ( d. 1829 )

* 1810 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, Marshal of France, is elected Crown Prince of Sweden by the Swedish Riksdag of the Estates.

* 1725 – Jean-Baptiste Greuze, French painter ( d. 1805 )

* 1773 – Jean-Baptiste de Villèle, French statesman ( d. 1854 )

* 1833 – Jean-Baptiste Accolay, Belgian composer ( d. 1900 )

* 1774 – Jean-Baptiste Biot, French physicist ( d. 1862 )

* 1719 – Jean-Baptiste de La Salle, French saint ( b. 1651 )

* Jean-Baptiste Muard ( 1809 – 1854 )

# Joseph Bonaparte ( Corte 1768 – Florence 1844 ), King of Naples and Spain, married Julie Clary, sister of Napoleon's childhood sweetheart, Désirée, who was to become the wife of General Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte, the later Charles XIV of Sweden.

* 1990 – Jean-Baptiste Maunier, French actor and singer

In the revival movement France held a foremost place, owing to the reputation and convincing power of the orator, Jean-Baptiste Henri Lacordaire ( 1802 – 1861 ).

Jean-Baptiste Lamarck ( 1744 – 1829 )

* 1583 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist ( d. 1656 )

* 1680 – Jean-Baptiste Le Moyne de Bienville, French colonizer and Governor of Louisiana ( d. 1767 )

* 1825 – Jean-Baptiste Salpointe, second Archbishop of Santa Fe ( d. 1898 )

Triumph of Faith over Idolatry by Jean-Baptiste Théodon ( 1646 – 1713 )

* 1818 – Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte ascends to the thrones of Sweden and Norway.

* 1677 – Jean-Baptiste Morin, French composer ( d. 1745 )

* 1714 – Jean-Baptiste Pigalle, French sculptor ( d. 1785 )

* 1704 – Jean-Baptiste de Boyer, Marquis d ' Argens, French writer ( d. 1771 )