Turgot Anne Robert Jacques

Tur·got

 (to͝or-gō′, tür-), Anne Robert Jacques 1727-1781.

French economist. Appointed controller general under Louis XVI (1774), he was dismissed (1776) after proposing reforms that were unpopular with the aristocracy.

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