2023-09-05 01:05:00
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TO LISTEN. Long before the sumptuous reception of Vaux-le-Vicomte, the king already wanted to get rid of his superintendent of finances who was stealing too much from the state.
By Frédéric Lewino and Gwendoline Dos Santos
Published on 05/09/2019 at 01:05 – Modified on 05/09/2023 at 01:05
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On September 5, 1661, Louis XIV had been staying in Nantes for a few days to attend the States of Brittany. Like every morning, he meets his council at 7 o’clock. The superintendent of finances Nicolas Fouquet goes there at a good pace, paying little attention to the many musketeers present in the streets. He imagines that they are waiting for the young 23-year-old king to accompany him on the hunt after the council. What he does not suspect is that the game is him!
The meeting normally takes place until around 11 a.m. when the sovereign closes the meeting. The rest, it is he himself who tells it in a letter sent to his mother, Anne of Austria: “Finally, this morning, the superintendent having come to work with me as usual, I spoke to him sometimes about ‘a material and sometimes a…
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