Daniel Dessert, associate history professor at the Naval Academy and specialist XVII and eighteenth centuries, draws a portrait of the Superintendent of Finance which popular history has often held that the dismissal and imprisonment for Following the celebrations of Vaux le Vicomte. The reality is much more complex and Fouquet began a long process of modernization of the state and its financial tools. Colbert, his rival successor will seek to minimize the reforms to then the approprpier ...
The precise bore starts with a description of the slow ascent of the Fouquet family with approximations (a less prestigious it was claimed ancestry) and ambitions shared by cousins, uncles ... etc.
By rehabilitating Nicolas Fouquet, M. Dessert also attacks one he overwhelms many ailments (read Colbert or poisonous snake of the same author).
Very accurate, honest, documented, this book meets the specific questions and allows you to get a sense of one who has been abused by official history.
