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colbert
/ˈkoʊlbɚt/
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What does colbert mean?
proper noun
- A surname.
- A male given name transferred from the surname.
- A city in Madison County, Georgia, United States.
More meanings (3)
proper noun
- A town in Bryan County, Oklahoma, United States.
- An unincorporated community in Spokane County, Washington, United States.
- Ellipsis of Colbert County.
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IPA pronunciation
/ˈkoʊlbɚt/
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One of those causes appeared to be the preference given, by the institutions of Mr Colbert, to the industry of the towns above that of the country.
If, on the French side, in that tussle of the cuirassiers, Delort, l’Héritier, Colbert, Dnop, Travers, and Blancard were disabled, on the side of the English there was Alten wounded, Barne wounded, Delancey killed, Van Meeren killed, Ompteda killed, the whole of Wellington’s staff decimated, and England had the worse of it in that bloody scale.
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It was precisely thus that the famous (or infamous) Gourville, successively valet-de-chambre to the Duc de la Rochefoucault, hanged in effigy at Paris, king's envoy in Germany, and afterwards proposed to replace Colbert--it was thus precisely, I say, that Gourville secured favour, 'consideration,' fortune; for he declares, in his Memoirs, that his gains in a few years amounted to more than a million.
Men of the world, like Bussy Rabutin, queens like our Elizabeth; popes like Innocent X.; financiers like Colbert (who made the Grand Turk send him Levant morocco for bindings); men of letters like Scott and Southey, Janin and Nodier, and Paul Lacroix; warriors like Junot and Prince Eugène; these are only leaders of companies in the great army of lovers of books, in which it is honourable enough to be a private soldier.