Jean-Baptiste Colbert

Work : None | Start Business 1666 (Created the French Academy of Science) | Social : None | End a program of study 1666 (Excluded astrology from curriculum) | : None | Death, Cause unspecified 6 September 1683 (greg.) (Age 63) | Vocation : Business | Economist | Vocation : Politics | Public office (Cabinet Minister, Secretary of State) | Notable : Famous | Founder/ originator (Founder of the French Academy of Science)