Turgot
Anne Ro·bert Jacques [anraw-ber-zhahk], /ˈan rɔˈbɛr ˈʒɑk/, 1727–81, French statesman, financier, and economist.
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This, then, is the significance of the date of Turgot's birth.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) | John MorleyEven with Michel-Etienne, the father of Turgot, we have here no dealing.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) | John MorleyAnd Turgot's family was only of the secondary noblesse of the robe.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) | John MorleyTurgot's piece treats half the subject as if it were the whole.
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) | John MorleyThe king had once said pathetically: 'It is only M. Turgot and I who love the people.'
Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3) | John Morley
British Dictionary definitions for Turgot
/ (French tyrɡo) /
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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