Jacques Necker (and public opinion) [ Politics / Publicity ]
… Pezant, ‘Monsieur Necker redemandé par le Tiers-Etat’, Gallica BnF, 1789. Image Hennin, Michel, ‘Constitution de la France’, Gallica BnF, 1789. Résumé Jacques Necker, finance minister of France under the Old Regime (1777-1781) and then the revolution (1788-1790), was known for much more than his keen … sociability of public opinion as it existed under the Old Regime. 1 . Marcel Marion, Histoire Financière de la France depuis 1715, vol. 1 (Paris: A. Rousseau, 1914); Herbert Luethy, La Banque protestante en France de la révocation …
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