Turgot
Americannoun
noun
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Her contemporary, Bishop Turgot, recorded that she summoned Church councils and argued for days against opponents of reform.
From BBC ● Oct. 14, 2016
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
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
Aided by Beaumarchais, the author of Le Mariage de Figaro, Vergennes countered the advice of Turgot and won over the king to his plan.
From The Colonization of North America 1492-1783 by Bolton, Herbert Eugene
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