Jacques Cœur
✓ Source-basedfallingFrench merchant, one of the founders of the trade between France and the Levant
Jacques Cœur was a French government official and state-sponsored merchant whose personal fortune became legendary and led to his eventual disgrace. He initiated regular trade routes between France and the Levant.
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Presumed portrait of Jacques Cœur, at his palace in Bourges
Jacques Cœur's motto, "To the brave hearts nothing is impossible" (à vaillans cœurs riens impossible), in the Bourges palace's chapel. The word cœurs is displayed ideogrammatically
Old house in Bourges that was formerly thought to be Jacques Cœur's birthplace
Overdoor sculpture of one of Jacques Cœur's galleys, in his palace in Bourges
Château d'Ainay-le-Vieil, owned by Jacques Cœur between 1435 and 1451
Palace of Jacques Cœur in Bourges, courtyard
Statue of Jacques Cœur by Élias Robert in the Louvre, early 1850s
Monument to Jacques Cœur by Auguste Préault in Bourges, late 1870sPoliticians born in the 1390s 6
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Jacques Cœur was a French government official and state-sponsored merchant whose personal fortune became legendary and led to his eventual disgrace. He initiated regular trade routes between France and the Levant. His memory retains iconic status in Bourges, where he built a palatial house that is preserved to this day.
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