Top 2 Quotes & Sayings by Jacques Necker

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Last updated on November 25, 2024.
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.

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