Duke of Sully

Timeline

1. 1598–1610Paris · Île-de-FranceFrom 1598 took full charge of French finances, clearing the public debt, reforming taxes, cutting court expenditure, and investing in canals, roads, and fortifications. His reforms helped France gradually recover from the ruins of the Wars of Religion under Henry IV.
2. 1610–1611Paris · Île-de-FranceAfter Henry IV's assassination in May 1610, Sully briefly remained in office before the new king Louis XIII and the queen mother regent, then formally resigned in early 1611, ending nearly twenty years at the center of government.
3. 1611–1641Vincennes · Île-de-FranceAfter 1611 he retired to Vincennes and elsewhere, compiling his experience of governance under Henry IV and writing works such as Mémoires des finances de la maison de Bourbon, an important source for studying fiscal reform in early French absolutism.