Fouquet, Nicolas

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Basic data

  1. January 27, 1615 in Paris
  2. March 23, 1680 in Pinerolo
  3. Minister
  4. Paris

Iconography

Portrait by Charles Le Brun (Source: Wikimedia)
Coat-of-arms of the Fouquet family. The family motto was ‘Quo non ascendet?’ (‘What heights will he not scale?’). Fouquet means ‘squirrel’ in one of the local dialects of the west of France.[3]:21, 28 (Source: Wikimedia)
Portrait of Marie-Madeleine de Castille the Spouse of Nicolas Fouquet. (Source: Wikimedia)
Cardinal Mazarin (Source: Wikimedia)
Rhythmic massing of the entrance front of Vaux-le-Vicomte (Source: Wikimedia)
The Vauban Citadel in Le Palais, Belle-Île, owned by Fouquet (Source: Wikimedia)
Seventeenth century etching of the Citadel of Pignerol, where Fouquet was imprisoned for 15 years and where he died in 1680. (Source: Wikimedia)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fouquet, 1680/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fovqvet, Claude Mellan - 1660 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fouquet, 1680/1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fovqvet, 1663/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fovqvet, 1648/1680 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fovqvet, unbekannter Künstler - 1650/1700 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fovqve, unbekannter Künstler - 1651/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fouquet, 1680/1800 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fovqvet, Grimm, ? (1667) - 1667/1733 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)
Bildnis des Nicolas Fouquet, 1680/1750 (Quelle: Digitaler Portraitindex)

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