Claim: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture office reverted to his predecessor Chancellor Séguier who named Jean-Baptiste Colbert (29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683)as Vice-protecteur.
Evidence: Following the death of the Protecteur of the Académie, Cardinal Mazarin, in 1661, the office reverted to his predecessor Chancellor Séguier. Later that year, Séguier named Jean-Baptiste Colbert, King Louis XIV's trusted minister, as Vice-protecteur. Jean-Baptiste Colbert (French: [ʒɑ̃.ba.tist kɔl.bɛʁ; 29 August 1619 – 6 September 1683) was a French statesman who served as First Minister of State from 1661 until his death in 1683 under the rule of King Louis XIV.