Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
At a glance:
- Series: Dictionary of World Biography: The 17th and 18th Centuries
- Categories: Government and Politics, Economics
- Subcategories: Politicians, Diplomats, Capitalism, Capitalists
- Curriculum: 18th Century European History, French History
Article abstract: Turgot was perhaps the most important reform-minded minister to serve the French monarchy in the last generation before the Revolution of 1789. He is best known as an economic theorist. He championed the laissez-faire precepts of the “classical” economic school and strove to remove obsolete or artificial barriers to the free flow of trade in prerevolutionary France.
Early Life
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, Baron de l’Aulne, was born into a famous family that had served the kings of France in various high bureaucratic posts since the...
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