Colbert, Jean Baptiste People Economics Social Sciences

Jean Baptiste Colbert was the French minister of finance from 1661 to 1683. He worked, with only partial success, to improve the conditions for internal trade. He improved the public infrastructure, in part by the use of the hated corvee.

• Colbert, Jean Baptiste - Article from the Wikipedia open encyclopedia project.
• Memorandum on Trade, 1664 - From the Modern History Sourcebook
• History of Economic Thought | Jean Baptiste Colbert - Biography, links, and works of Colbert.

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