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

Outside Turgot High School in Paris, small groups of students chatted and smoked after the end of their classes on a recent afternoon.

From New York Times

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

From BBC

Mr., 30.Transubstantiation, origin of belief in, 67.Turgot,

From Project Gutenberg

About the same time he fell into the society of the Encyclopoedists, and allied himself with Helv�tius, d'Alembert, Turgot, and the rest of the philosophical party, who received the illustrious recruit with open arms.

From Project Gutenberg

I have already had occasion to quote at the beginning of this paper his disclaimer of the honors conferred upon him by Turgot's famous Latin line.

From Project Gutenberg