Charles Alexandre de Calonne
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Charles Alexandre de Calonne, titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis XVI's Controller-General of Finances in the years leading up to the French Revolut
Portrait of Charles Alexandre de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1784, Royal Collection)
Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Count of Hannonville by Johann Ernst Heinsius
Jacques Necker
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Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker wa
Charles Alexandre de Calonne
…internal customs duties and implement a property tax on nobles and clergy. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, a noted Swiss economist and Jacques Necker, an eminent French banker and former Director-General of Finances, had tried and failed to get these reforms adopted. Calonne attributed their failure…
Portrait by Joseph Duplessis, c. 1781
Suzanne Curchod, Necker's wife
Daughter Germaine Necker by Carmontelle 1780
Château de Madrid, Necker's home in Neuilly-sur-Seine