biography
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Fouquet, Nicolas, vicomte de (Viscount of) Melun et de Vaux, Marquis de Belle-Isle
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pronunciation:
[fookay]
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| lived:
| (1615–80)
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| biography:
| French statesman, born in Paris, France. Mazarin made him procureur-général to the parliament of Paris (1650) and superintendent of finance (1653). He became extremely rich, and was ambitious to succeed Mazarin, but Louis XIV himself took up the reins of power on Mazarin's death, and Fouquet was arrested for embezzlement (1661). He was sentenced to life imprisonment in the fortress of Pignerol, where he died. |
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