The secretary of state for war, later secretary of state, minister for war, was one of the four or five specialized secretaries of state in France during the Ancien Régime. The position was responsibl

Abel Servien, marquis de Sablé et de Boisdauphin and Comte de La Roche des Aubiers was a French diplomat who served Cardinal Mazarin and signed for the French the Treaty of Westphalia. He was an early