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Nicolas Rolin
Nicolas Rolin was chancellor of the Burgundian state under Philip the Good from 1422 until shortly before his death in 1462. A lawyer from Autun, he directed the government of lands stretching from Burgundy to Holland and negotiated the Treaty of Arras of 1435. He founded the Hospices de Beaune in 1443 and is shown in Jan van Eyck's Madonna of Chancellor Rolin.
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