Turgot

[tyr-goh]

noun

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

Turgot

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

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

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

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Turgot had argued before the Sorbonne, only a few years previously, that a belief in the progress of the human race, so far from being incompatible with the doctrine of redemption, is its necessary consequence.

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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.

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