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crl-16061	Dousa, Thomas	Jacob Soll. The Information Master: Jean-Baptiste Colbert’s Secret State Intelligence System. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2009. 277p. alk. paper, $65 (ISBN 9780472116904). LC 2008-051142.	2010	5	.pdf	application/pdf	3222	88	35	Indeed, a primary thesis of the book is that, by integrating a wide array of information sources, institutions, and practices into his administrative system, Book Reviews 79 Colbert became, in effect, the chief infor- mation manager for Louis XIV’s régime or, in Soll’s felicitous phrase, “the informa- tion master” of the French state. Born into a merchant family and trained in the mercantile arts, Colbert en- tered into state administration at an early age and rose to prominence in the 1650s as financial manager for, and administrative factotum to, Cardinal Mazarin, the chief minister of France.	cache/crl-16061.pdf	txt/crl-16061.txt