Turgot

American  

[tyr-goh] / türˈgoʊ /

noun

1. Anne Robert Jacques 1727–81, French statesman, financier, and economist.

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Turgot British  

/ tyrɡo /

noun

1. 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

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Example Sentences

She was clearly a formidable character, not sparing the rod for her children, and "feared by people while they loved her", Turgot wrote.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2016

Her contemporary, Bishop Turgot, recorded that she summoned Church councils and argued for days against opponents of reform.

From BBC • Oct. 14, 2016

Frenchman Sebastien Turgot, who was on the attack all day, finished second, outsprinting Italian Alessandro Ballan on the Roubaix velodrome.

From New York Times • Apr. 9, 2012

The "let-alone" theory was central to the 18th century economic school of the Physiocrats, led by Francois Quesnay and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot.

From Salon • Jun. 15, 2010

Turgot vindicates the interests of workmen against protective duties, for whom no compensation is possible, where one industry gains by its being favored in the same way that it loses when another is favored.

From Principles of Political Economy, Vol. II by Roscher, Wilhelm