What is Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
{{Infobox officeholder | name = | honorific-suffix = Lord of [[Vandières, Marne|Vandières]] and [[Cernay-lès-Reims|Cernay]] | image = Colbert1666.jpg | caption = ''Portrait de Jean-Baptiste Colbert'' (1655)<br>by [[Philippe de Champaigne]] | office = [[Chief minister of France|First Minister of State]] | monarch = [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] | term_start = 9 March 1661 | term_end = 6 September 1683 | predecessor = [[Cardinal Mazarin|Jules Raymond Mazarin]] | successor = [[François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois|The Marquis of Louvois]] | office1 = [[Secretary of State of the Navy (France)|Secretary of State of the Navy]] | monarch1 = [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] | term_start1 = 7 March 1669 | term_end1 = 6 September 1683 | predecessor1 = [[Hugues de Lionne|The Marquis of Fresnes]] | successor1 = [[Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay|The Marquis of Seignelay]] | office3 = [[Controller-General of Finances]] | monarch3 = [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] | term_start3 = 12 December 1665 | term_end3 = 6 September 1683 | predecessor3 = Louis Le Tonnelier | successor3 = Claude Le Peletier | office2 = [[Secretary of State of the Maison du Roi]] | monarch2 = [[Louis XIV of France|Louis XIV]] | term_start2 = 16 February 1669 | term_end2 = 6 September 1683 | predecessor2 = [[Antoine de Ratabon]] | successor2 = [[François-Michel le Tellier, Marquis de Louvois|The Marquis of Louvois]] | birth_date = {{birth date|df=yes|1619|08|29}} | birth_place = [[Reims]], [[Kingdom of France|France]] | death_date = {{death date and age|df=yes|1683|09|6|1619|08|29}} | death_place = [[Paris]], [[Kingdom of France|France]] | restingplace = [[Saint-Eustache, Paris]] | nationality = French | spouse = {{marriage|Marie Charron|1648|1683}} | children = {{plainlist| *[[Jean-Baptiste Colbert, Marquis de Seignelay|Jean-Baptiste]] *[[Jacques Nicolas Colbert|Jacques Nicolas]] *Jean-Jules-Armand}} | nickname = ''Le Grand Colbert''<br />(The Great Colbert) | module = {{Infobox economist|embed=yes | institution = {{plainli