Complex sentence: By lending money to the government he was ennobled as the Marquis du Chatel, and became a financial counsellor to Louis XIV, who eventually offered him a 15 ‑ year trade monopoly in the new colony of Louisiana.
Split into simpler sentences: By lending money to the government he was ennobled as the marquis du Châtel, and became a financial counsellor to Louis XIV. The king eventually offered him a 15 ‑ year trade monopoly in the new colony of Louisiana.