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
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
Storming of the Bastille
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The Storming of the Bastille, also known as Fall of the Bastille, which occurred in Paris, France, on 14 July 1789, was an act of political violence by revolutionary insurgents who attempted to storm
Jacques Necker
…the national debt brought France to a fiscal crisis. Necker was recalled to royal service. His dismissal on 11 July 1789 was a factor in causing the Storming of the Bastille. Within two days, Necker was recalled by the king and the assembly. Necker entered France in triumph and tried to accelerate the tax reform process…
Contemporary painting of the storming
Portrait of the Marquis de Launay, the Governor of the Bastille during the storm
The Bastille of Paris before the Revolution