Claim: Académie royale de peinture et de sculpture office reverted to his predecessor Chancellor Séguier who named Jean-Baptiste Colbert 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.