Video - The 'Code noir,' enacted in 1685 under King Louis XIV, defined the rules of slavery in France's colonies. Prime ...

Mr. Swaim admits, “I’m no specialist in economic history, but that sounds to me like Colbert’s industrial strategy was a bust.” Jean-Baptiste Colbert knew failure along with success ...

It is a mercantilist approach that has already been tried—and that briefly succeeded—under Louis XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, in 17th-century France. Mercantilism is the ...

(As portrayed in Canada: A People's History) Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Secretary of State for Louis XIV's navy, dreamt of making his country the dominant European power and mother country of a great ...

They were produced at a factory in Saint-Gobain after King Louis XIV’s minister of finance, Jean-Baptiste Colbert, "in a clandestine operation worthy of a spy-thriller," managed to spirit away ...