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Here the author addresses a biography of Nicolas Fouquet, superintendent of finances.

The problem is that the 200 to 300 ° pages are pretty indigestible: The rise of clan Fouquet and detailed reminder of how the royal finances in the seventeenth century saddled some dynamics book ...

Fortunately, from the arrest of the Superintendent, the story is set in motion and we can only feel pity for a Fouquet found himself, as the author says in conclusion, "in the wrong place at the wrong time ", faced with the young Louis XIV who wanted to consolidate his power through the" coup of 1661 ".