 The office was thus, in the beginning, not a senior rank governmental position, but merely an accounting audit charge.In the period following 1547, the financial administration in France continued to evolve, resulting in 1552 in the creation of Intendants of Finances ("Intendants des Finances"), of which one was to become in 1561 the leading Superintendent of Finances ("Surintendant des Finances") with cabinet rank.In 1661, the last Superintendent of Finances, Nicolas Fouquet, was arrested by order of King Louis XIV and charged with embezzlement, so that subsequently Jean-Baptiste Colbert became head of the royal financial and tax collection administration, at first with the title of "intendant général", then, from 1665, with the title of "Contrôleur général des Finances".