COLBERT, JEAN BAPTISTE

(161983), Fr. statesman. In 1651 he was employed by Cardinal Mazarin, and quickly rose in influence, After Mazarin’s death in 1661 he entered the employment of Louis XIV., and was made superintendent of buildings, 1664, controller-general, 1665, and minister of marine, 1669. Intendant of Alsace, 1658; represented France at conference of Aix-la-Chapelle; amba ador to London, 1668, American technical writer, 6. in Sara Advocate’ in New York, in 1854. Later he went to London, where he became editor of the London Engineer, in 1858. There he founded a new journal, Engineering, in 1866. Four years later he returned to the United States, where he committed suicide.