biography
| name: |
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques
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pronunciation:
[toorgoh]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1727–81)
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| biography:
| French statesman and economist, born in Paris, France. Educated at the seminary of Saint-Sulpice, he renounced the Church for the law, became a magistrate in the Parlement of Paris, and was promoted to intendant at Limoges (1761–74), where he carried out reforms. Here he published his best-known work, Réflexions sur la formation et la distribution des richesses (1766, Reflections on the Formation and Distribution of Wealth). Appointed comptroller-general of finance by Louis XVI (1774), he embarked on a comprehensive scheme of national economic reform, but the opposition of the privileged classes to his Six Edicts led to his overthrow (1776), and he died forgotten, his reforms abandoned. |
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