The Hôtel Colbert, once the royal lodging, is now occupied by an archaeological museum.

He once served as a guest on The Colbert Report.

Late night talk shows, once exclusive to network television, have begun to be included on cable channels as well in recent years in part due to the success of Comedy Central's The Daily Show with Jon Stewart ; other late night cable talk shows such as Conan, Lopez Tonight, The Colbert Report and Chelsea Lately have also proven successful ; however, late night talk / variety programs on cable have a slight advantage over their broadcast counterparts as most of them typically air at 11 p. m.

He returned once more to Surat ( 1668 ) to write a memoir on Indian commerce for the use of Jean-Baptiste Colbert ( who recently had founded La Compagnie des Indes Orientales ).

Goddard further commented that Colbert " flipped " and " was at Paulette's eyes at every moment ," and said that they continued their feud throughout the duration of filming.

Irene Dunne commented that she had lacked Colbert's " terrifying ambition " and noted that if Colbert " finished work on a film on a Saturday, she would be looking for a new project by Monday ".

Claudette Colbert commented that Davis was the first actress to play roles older than herself, and therefore did not have to make the difficult transition to character parts as she aged.

On December 9, 2010, Ellsberg appeared on The Colbert Report where he commented that the existence of WikiLeaks helps to build a better government.

Harry Cohn suggested Colbert, and she initially turned the role down.

" Through the filming, Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.

In 1935, after her Academy Award nomination, Colbert decided not to attend the presentation, feeling confident that she would not win the award, and instead, planned to take a cross-country railroad trip.

Colbert arrived wearing a two-piece traveling suit which she had the Paramount Pictures costume designer, Travis Banton, make for her trip.

Colbert studied at Washington Irving High School where her speech teacher, Alice Rossetter, encouraged her to audition for a play she had written.

She had been using the name Claudette instead of nickname Lily since high school, and for her stage name she added her maternal grandmother's maiden name, Colbert.

Colbert was cast as a femme fatale in Cecil B. DeMille's films where she wears fetishistic costumes which lose another layer of clothing.

Through the filming, Colbert felt that the script was weak, and Capra claimed, Colbert " had many little tantrums, motivated by her antipathy toward me ," however " she was wonderful in the part.

In 1935, after her Academy Award nomination, Colbert decided not to attend the presentation, feeling confident that she would not win the award, and instead, planned to take a cross-country railroad trip.

Colbert arrived wearing a two-piece traveling suit which she had the Paramount Pictures costume designer, Travis Banton, make for her trip.

Colbert was a stickler for regarding the way she appeared on screen.

In 1940, Colbert refused a seven-year contract that would have paid her $ 200, 000 a year, as she had found that she could command a fee of $ 150, 000 per film as a freelance artist.

Two days before filming began, Colbert advised the director Frank Capra that she was unable to work beyond 5 p. m. each day, citing " doctor's orders ".

Producer Joseph L. Mankiewicz was enthusiastic about Colbert, feeling that she best represented the style of the older actress he envisioned for the part.

The film gave Niven one of his first significant parts, and he wrote that Colbert took a nurturing role towards him and " was the soul of fun and a most generous performer ," although he noted that her insistence that she be filmed only from her left side created difficulties for the cameramen.

Colbert was generally respected for her professionalism, with the New York Times stating that she was known for giving " 110 percent " to any project she worked on, and she was highly regarded for learning the technical aspects of studio lighting and cinematography that allowed her to maintain a distinctive film image.

Colbert found it difficult to make the transition to playing more mature characters as she approached middle-age.

Praised for her sense of style and awareness of fashion, Colbert ensured throughout her career that she was impeccably groomed and costumed.

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.

In later life, Colbert said, " I just never had the luck to play bitches.

Colbert had a supporting role rather than top billing in the film, which also featured a number of well known French cinema performers.

Colbert had one brother, Charles ( 1898 – 1971 ), who used the surname Wendling and served as her agent and business manager for a time.

The bulk of Colbert's estate, estimated at $ 3. 5 million, was left to a friend, Helen O ' Hagan, a retired director of corporate relations at Saks Fifth Avenue, whom Colbert had met in 1961 on the set of the her last film.

" The writer A. Scott Berg described Colbert as one of Paramount Studio's greatest assets, as she had " proved deft in all genres " and had " helped define femininity for her generation with her chic manner.

Claudette Colbert, for whom the part had been written, had severely injured her back, and she was unable to continue.

Number 1 ranked Mike Colbert was knocked out in the twelfth and also had his jaw broken by Hagler.

He informed the French ambassador Colbert de Croissy that to his regret he had to terminate the English war effort and told the Dutch via the Spanish consul in London, the Marquess del Fresno, that, his main war aim, to install his noble nephew as stadtholder, having been attained, there was no longer any objection on his side to concluding a lasting peace between the two Protestant brother nations, if only some minor " indemnities " could be paid.

In August 2007, Branson announced on The Colbert Report that he had named a new aircraft Air Colbert.

Branson then made a cameo appearance on The Soup playing an intern working under Joel McHale who had been warned against getting into water fights with Stephen Colbert, and being subsequently fired.

" The comment resulted in a local uproar, with the Canton, Georgia, mayor insisting Colbert had never visited the town along with an invitation for him to do so.

His vigorous internal policy mixed the economic reforms of Colbert for Louis XIV with some conservative Spanish aspects: a regular mail service to the Americas was instituted, yet the school of navigation he founded was reserved for the sons of the nobility.

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

In September 2000, the Louvre Museum dedicated the Gilbert Chagoury and Rose-Marie Chagoury Gallery to display tapestries donated by the Chagourys, including a 16th-century six-part tapestry suite, sewn with gold and silver threads representing sea divinities, which was commissioned in Paris for Colbert de Seignelay, Secretary of State for the Navy.

She continued to produce films for others, including Sleep, My Love ( 1948 ) with Claudette Colbert and Love Happy ( 1949 ) with the Marx Brothers.

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.

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.

The New Yorker Obama cover was later parodied by Stewart and Stephen Colbert on the October 3, 2008 cover of Entertainment Weekly magazine, with Stewart as Obama and Colbert as Michelle, photographed for the magazine in New York City on September 18.

Gable and Colbert receive their only Oscars for this film.

Famous cases include Pluma Noisom ( stand-in for Claudette Colbert ) and Adam Bryant ( Robin Williams ).

According to the theory, during that period Colbert, the king's Finance Minister, regularly sold offices and noble titles for cash, and an outright patent of nobility, according to Wise, was worth approximately 500, 000 livres making a total of 720, 000 livres, a price much closer to the true value of the gem.

Colbert was noticed by the theatrical producer Leland Hayward, who suggested her for a role in Frank Capra's film For the Love of Mike ( 1927 ), now believed to be lost.

In 1933, Colbert renegotiated her contract with Paramount to allow her to appear in films for other studios.

Colbert received her third Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Before production started, Colbert severely injured her back, while filming a scene for Three Came Home.