The Controller-General or Comptroller-General of Finances (French: Contrôleur général des finances) was the name of the minister in charge of finances in...
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with the downfall of Nicolas Fouquet, and a new position was created, the Controller-General of Finances. Prior to the creation of the position "Surintendant...
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Intendant (redirect from Intendant général)
masters of requests in the Conseil des parties. They were chosen by the Controller-General of Finances who asked the advice of the Secretary of State for...
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Charles Alexandre de Calonne (category Viscounts of France)
titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis XVI's Controller-General of Finances (minister of finance) in the...
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Étienne de Silhouette (category French military personnel of the Seven Years' War)
(5 July 1709 – 20 January 1767) was a French Ancien Régime Controller-General of Finances under Louis XV. Sometimes said to be akin to the next Niccolò...
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Jean-Baptiste Colbert (redirect from Colbert's Ordinance of Trade)
Intendant of Finances on 4 May 1661. Colbert took over as Controller-General of Finances, a newly created position, in the aftermath of the arrest of Nicolas...
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a list of ministers of finance of France, including the equivalent positions of Superintendent of Finances and Controller-General of Finances during the...
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John Law (economist) (redirect from Scarcity theory of value)
as Controller-General of Finances on 5 January 1720,: 81 effectively giving him control over external and internal commerce. As Controller-General, Law...
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Joseph Foullon de Doué (category People of the French Revolution)
French politician and a Controller-General of Finances under Louis XVI. A deeply unpopular figure, he has the ignominious distinction of being the first recorded...
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financial reform, due to the competing interests of its noble members. Calonne was the Controller-General of Finances, appointed by the king to address the state...
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Joseph Marie Terray (category Secretaries of State of the Navy (France))
Terray (1715 – 18 February 1778) was a Controller-General of Finances during the reign of Louis XV of France, an agent of fiscal reform. Terray, tonsured but...
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Henri Bertin (category Lieutenant generals of police of Paris)
September 1792, Spa, Belgium) was a French statesman, and controller general of finances of Louis XV (1759–1763). In 1741, he was a lawyer in Bordeaux...
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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie Antoinette, Archduchess of Austria)
Calonne, a close friend of the Polignacs, as Controller-General of Finances, and of the Baron de Breteuil as the Minister of the Royal Household, making...
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leur naturel, circa 1650. After examining the proposals, the Controller-General of Finances decided to restrict all legal documents to three hands, namely...
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Jacques Necker (category Secretaries of State of Ancien Régime France)
Galiani, and questioned the laissez-faire policies of Turgot, the Controller-General of Finances. Turgot had made too many enemies; in May 1776, he was...
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Flour War (redirect from Flour War of 1775)
Louis XVI's Controller-General of Finances (before the supply recovered), and the deploying of military troops. The Flour War was part of a broader social...
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(1619–1683), a Controller-General of Finances under the French king Louis XIV Stephen Colbert (b. 1964), an American satirist and host of The Late Show...
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Clément Charles François de Laverdy (category Members of the Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres)
order and thus acquired popularity. King Louis XV named him Controller-General of Finances in December 1763, but the tasks at hand seemed to surpass Laverdy's...
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Généralité (category Subdivisions of France)
century — under the authority of an intendant (reporting to the Controller-General of Finances) — the very framework of royal administration and centralisation...
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Enterprises. List of finance ministers of France Superintendent of Finances (1561–1661) Controller-General of Finances (1661–1791) Wine warehouses of Bercy (French)...
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Louis XV (redirect from Louis XV of France)
the course of nineteen years, while the King, in his last thirty-one years, employed forty-three. Louis's Controller-General of Finances Michel Robert...
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Maupeou family (redirect from House of Maupeou)
representatives of which played a role as Controller-General of Finances or Chancellors in the history of the French monarchy. Vincent Maupeou, the founder of the...
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Michel Chamillart (category Secretaries of State for War (France))
confidence of Madame de Maintenon and pleased the king. In 1690 he was made intendant of finances, and on 5 September 1699 the king appointed him Controller-General...
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Louis XIV (redirect from King Louis XIV of France)
Colbert as Controller-General of Finances in 1665. However, Louis first had to neutralize Nicolas Fouquet, the powerful Superintendent of Finances. Although...
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot (category Secretaries of State of Ancien Régime France)
with general approval, and was hailed with enthusiasm by the philosophes. A month later (24 August) he was appointed Controller-General of Finances. His...
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as reduced to a level with the rest of the nation." On 22 July the populace lynched Controller-General of Finances Joseph Foullon de Doué and his son-in-law...
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Conseil du Roi (redirect from Conseil royal des finances)
royal des finances" and by the Controller-General of Finances. In the 16th century, with the Grand Conseil being a completely autonomous court of justice...
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Colbertism (category Economic history of France)
doctrine of the 17th century, created by Jean-Baptiste Colbert, the Controller-General of Finances under Louis XIV of France. Colbertism is a variant of mercantilism...
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Louis XVI (redirect from Louis XVI of France)
informed of the true extent of the debt, they were shocked and rejected the plan. After this, Louis XVI and his new Controller-General of Finances, Étienne-Charles...
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the northwestern end of the complex, adjacent to the train station. It is named after Turgot, who was controller general of finances under Louis XVI. The...
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