Sunday, August 28, 2011

Seafaring Sunday: Founding Pere

August 29, 1619: Jean-Baptiste Colbert, considered the founding father of the French Navy, was born.

Header: Jean-Baptiste Colbert by Claude Lefebvre
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3 comments:

  1. Timmy!August 28, 2011 at 9:49 PM

    Ahoy, Pauline! Happy 392nd, J-B... I wonder if he is any relation to Stephen Colbert?

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  2. Genevieve GrahamAugust 29, 2011 at 3:09 AM

    hmmm Under all that hair I kind of see Kevin Spacey. Maybe he should do a movie about this guy, call it the Colbert Report or something ...

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  3. PaulineAugust 29, 2011 at 6:42 AM

    Timmy: More people than would care to admit it are pretty French; Stephen for instance.

    Genevieve: I can see that. And actually a "Three Musketeers" style movie about Monsieur Colbert would probably be pretty entertaining.

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