Édouard Colbert, Marquis of Villacerf (born 1628; died in Paris on 17 October 1699) was a senior official in the government of Louis XIV.[1]
Portrait of Edouard Colbert
Lifeedit
He was the cousin of both Jean-Baptiste Colbert and Michel Le Tellier, son of Jean Baptiste Colbert, seigneur of Saint-Pouange and Claude Le Tellier, he entered the offices of the latter and served as the first war clerk. First maitre d'hotel to the queen, he was also court man and familiar with Louis XIV. In 1686, he received the appointment of general inspector of buildings from the king, which made him deputy to Louvois in the superintendence of buildings.[2] On the death of Louvois, Villacerf took his succession as Superintendent of Buildings on July 28, 1691, but held this office only by commission and not ex officio. He had married Geneviève Larcher, from whom he had, among others, Charles-Maurice Colbert, known as the Abbé de Villacerf, General Agent of the Clergy of France.[3]
Referencesedit
^Beausoleil, Marie-Ève (2012). "Thierry Sarmant et Mathieu Stoll, Régner et gouverner: Louis XIV et ses ministres, Paris, Perrin, 2010. 661 pages". Cahiers d'histoire. 31 (1): 155. doi:10.7202/1011686ar. ISSN 0712-2330.
^Nébrac, Claude-Jean (3 June 2015). Chronique d'une fin de siècle sous Louis XIV. ISBN9782322018246.
^Dimier, Louis (1928). Les peintres français du XVIIIe siècle.
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