00:00Under the Ancien Régime, the Controller General of Finances was the ministerial head of royal finances in France, after the
00:06abolition of the office of superintendent of finances in 1661, whose primary function was to administer the finances of
00:13the State, and therefore the budget and the debt.
00:15Jean-Baptiste Colbert was the first to hold this title, from 1665 to 1683.
