In order that the King would not have to stoop to receive the financier in an audience, the Controller-General of Finances, Nicolas Desmarets (1648-1721), carefully choreographed a meeting which took place at Marly.
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His family was Protestant, but his father, according to the apocryphal memoirs of the Marquise de Créquy, "had embraced the sect of Arminius and had been forced into exile."
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Louis XIV, having exhausted his finances, notably turned to Bernard in 1708 to finance the War of the Spanish Succession.
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