Turgot

[ tyr-goh ]

noun

1. Anne Ro·bert Jacques [an, , r, aw-, ber, , zhahk], 1727–81, French statesman, financier, and economist.

Turgot

/ tyrɡo /

noun

1. TurgotAnne Robert Jacques17271781MFrenchSOCIAL SCIENCE: economistPOLITICS: statesman Anne Robert Jacques (ɑn rɔbɛr ʒak). 1727–81, French economist and statesman. As controller general of finances (1774–76), he attempted to abolish feudal privileges, incurring the hostility of the aristocracy and his final dismissal

Example Sentences

This, then, is the significance of the date of Turgot's birth.

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Even with Michel-Etienne, the father of Turgot, we have here no dealing.

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And Turgot's family was only of the secondary noblesse of the robe.

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Turgot's piece treats half the subject as if it were the whole.

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The king had once said pathetically: 'It is only M. Turgot and I who love the people.'

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