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Jean Baptiste Colbert | |
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Marquis of Torcy | |
Full name | Jean Baptiste Colbert |
Born | 14 September 1665 Paris, France |
Died | 2 septembre 1746 (aged 80) Chaillot, Paris, France |
Noble family | Colbert family |
Spouse(s) | Catherine Félicité Arnauld (1696) |
Issue | Jean Baptiste Joachim, Marquis of Croissy |
Father | Charles Colbert, Marquis of Croissy |
Mother | Marguerite Béraud |
Jean Baptiste Colbert, Marquis of Torcy (14 September 1665 – 2 September 1746), generally called Colbert de Torcy, was a French diplomat, who negotiated some of the most important treaties towards the end of Louis XIV's reign, notably the treaty (1700) that occasioned the War of the Spanish Succession (1701–1714), in which the dying Charles II of Spain named Louis XIV's grandson, Philippe of France, Duke of Anjou, heir to the Spanish throne, eventually founding the line of Bourbons of Spain.