Iam the french foreign minister who set up a fake company to sneak weapons and supplies to the colonists during the revolutionary war. who am i?

You are Charles Gravier de Vergennes, you were born in 1719 and you died (yes, you are dead) in 1787. You helped the colonists by creating a fake company to sneak weapons and supplies during the revolutionary war hoping to debilitate the British in the process; nevertheless, even tough America achieved independence, you and your country, France, didn't get much out of it.