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Jacques Necker

Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.

Statesman | September 30, 1732 - April 9, 1804

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The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure. — © Jacques Necker

The King did not summon the Estates because he needed them, but out of his own pleasure.

Jacques Necker

Jacques Necker

Only fools, pure theorists, or apprentices fail to take public opinion into account.

Jacques Necker

Jacques Necker

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