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Neck·er (n

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), Jacques 1732-1804.

French financier and politician who advocated the formation of the States-General to effect financial reform. His brief dismissal by Louis XVI (1789) precipitated the storming of the Bastille.

Necker [ˈnɛkə (French) nɛkɛr]

(Biographies / Necker, Jacques (1732-1804) M, Frenchnational of birth: Swiss, BUSINESS: financier, POLITICS: statesman) Jacques (ʒak). 1732-1804, French financier and statesman, born in Switzerland; finance minister of France (1777-81; 1788-90). He attempted to reform the fiscal system and in 1789 he recommended summoning the States General. His subsequent dismissal was one of the causes of the storming of the Bastille (1789)

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