Jean-Baptiste Patoulet, un administrateur au service de l’empire français

Abstract

Jean-Baptiste Patoulet is one of the first administrators colonial. He is sent by the king during the birth of the French empire of America and he became the second intendant of it while the colonial organization formalize. His profile shows the distinctive characteristics of the missions which fall to the officers of the pen, the servants of a state which grows up thanks to the colonial trade. His in-house training is given by the navy. The rising colonial administration is quickly similar to a department in which the officers are faithfully bound with their superior, and with Secretary Colbert, who from France leads the operation of the colonial state.

Keywords

• first french empire
• colonial administration
• Marine officers
• servants of the State