Torcy, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, marquis de, 1665-1746

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Dates:
Birth 1665-09-14
Death 1746-09-02
French,
French,

Biographical notes:

French diplomat and minister of foreign affairs (1689-1715) who played a crucial role in the conferences that ended the War of Spanish Succession with the treaties of Utrecht (1713) and Rastatt (1714).

From the description of Jean-Baptiste Colbert correspondence : with the abbé François Gaultier, 1711-1714. (University of Pennsylvania Library). WorldCat record id: 84616446

1696-1715 minister of foreign affairs; 1710 established central diplomatic archive at Versailles

Epithet: French diplomat

Title: Marquis

British Library Archives and Manuscripts Catalogue : Person : Description : ark:/81055/vdc_100000000471.0x00032f

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Subjects:

  • Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714

Occupations:

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Places:

  • Ireland, Europe (as recorded)
  • Ratisbon, Bavaria (as recorded)
  • Rheinfels, Bavaria (as recorded)
  • Utrecht, the Netherlands (as recorded)
  • Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
  • Greenhoe North, Hundred of, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Canterbury, Kent (as recorded)
  • Hungary, Europe (as recorded)
  • Gallow, Hundred of, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Launditch, Hundred of, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Holt, Hundred of, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Perigueux, Dordogne (as recorded)
  • Netherlands, Europe (as recorded)
  • Thornham, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Venice, Republic of, Europe (as recorded)
  • Norfolk, England (as recorded)
  • Switzerland, Europe (as recorded)
  • Leghorn, Italy (as recorded)
  • France (as recorded)
  • Liege, Belgium (as recorded)
  • Netherlands, Europe (as recorded)
  • Rastadt, Baden (as recorded)
  • Netherlands, Europe (as recorded)
  • Perth, Perthshire (as recorded)
  • Augsburg, Germany (as recorded)
  • Brothercross, Hundred of, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Ghent, Flanders (as recorded)
  • Great Britain (as recorded)
  • Flanders, county of, Belgium (as recorded)
  • Switzerland, Europe (as recorded)
  • Hunstanton, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • Scotland, Kingdom of, United Kingdom (as recorded)
  • Framingham Heath, Norfolk (as recorded)
  • North Erpingham, Hundred of, Norfolk (as recorded)

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