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Belgian arms trader
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Liège, Belgium
Place of death
Liérganes, Spain
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77 years
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Jean Curtius, also known as Jean De Corte and Juan Curcio, called Curtius (1551 – July 12, 1628) was a Liégeois manufacturer who obtained the monopoly on providing gunpowder to the Spanish army.
The mansion he built on the banks of the Meuse in Liège is now the Curtius Museum.
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Maison Curtius, c. 1642 . 
Curtius Museum, as restored in 2003 .Rear facade of the Maison Curtius .
The gate of Curtius's La Cavada factory in Cantabria, Spain (1890) .
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