Jacques-Nicolas Colbert, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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Roman Catholic archbishop
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Place of Birth: Paris, ÃŽle-de-France, France
About Jacques-Nicolas Colbert
- Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (14 February 1655, in Paris – 10 December 1707, in Paris) was a French churchman. Youngest son of Minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert, he was educated for a career in the church, tutored by Noël Alexandre, a Dominican theologian and philosopher later condemned for his Jansenist views. The young Colbert was abbot at Le Bec-Hellouin before becoming Archbishop of Rouen in 1691.
- He was admitted to the Académie française on 31 October 1678 and was one of the first members of the Académie des inscriptions et belles-lettres. He was a patron of Jules Hardouin-Mansart and André Le Nôtre and commissioned the restoration of the official residence of the Archbishops of Rouen, the Château de Gaillon.
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