Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]
… Image Boillet J.N., 'Mr Necker : ministre d'Etat directeur général des finances, né à Geneve. Ses travaux ont pour but le bonheur des humains', Gallica BnF, 1789. Image Gaucher, … Jacques Necker, a protestant banker from the city-state of Geneva, was best known for his role as director general of finances to the French Crown under Louis XVI, serving first from 1777 to 1781 and then again from 1788 to 1790. 1 But … en France de la révocation de l’édit de Nantes à la révolution, 2 vols. (Paris: SEVPEN, 1961); John Bosher, French Finances 1770-1795: From Business to Bureaucracy (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1970); Robert Harris, Necker: …
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