farmer-general
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Origin of farmer-general
1705–15; translation of French fermier-général
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An officer, called a dewan, had been established in the provinces, expressly as a check on the person who should act as farmer-general.
From The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. 10 (of 12) by Burke, Edmund
Then we sat down to supper—ten of us: Bodard and his wife, the Controller-General, Beaumarchais, the two strangers, two pretty women whose names may not be mentioned, and a farmer-general named, I think, Lavoisier.
From The Works of Honor? de Balzac About Catherine de' Medici, Seraphita and Other Stories by Balzac, Honor? de
Voltaire wrote a dramatic text on the subject at the request of La Popeliniere, the farmer-general, who, as poet, musician, and artist, exercised a tremendous influence in his day.
From A Second Book of Operas by Krehbiel, Henry Edward
What matters it, since he who was truly a father to her was the farmer-general, Lenormant de Tourneheim.
From The International Monthly, Volume 5, No. 3, March, 1852 by Various
She declared that the farmer-general had carried to his house at Passy a number of bags filled with gold and silver and that those bags had disappeared a few days before the arrest.
From The Confessions of Arsène Lupin by Leblanc, Maurice
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