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    Charles Alexandre de Calonne (20 January 1734 – 30 October 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis...
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  • Calonne may refer to: Charles Alexandre de Calonne, a French statesman Jacques Calonne, a Belgian artist, musician, and writer Michel Calonne, a French...
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    council of finance, and, in 1783, he supported the nomination of Charles Alexandre de Calonne as Controller-General. Vergennes died just before the meeting...
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    failed miserably, Louis dismissed and replaced him in 1783 with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who increased public spending to "buy" the country's way out...
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  • Louis XVI. D'Abancourt was born in Douai, and was the nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne. He was Louis XVI's last minister of war (July 1792), and organised...
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    format), they were both probably first owned by the French lawyer Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734–1802). They were then sold at Skinner and Dyke auction...
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    Alexandre de Calonne, the former finance minister. They settled at Turin, where Calonne, as agent for the count d'Artois and the prince de Condé, began...
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    the nomination of Charles Alexandre de Calonne, a close friend of the Polignacs, as Controller-General of Finances, and of the Baron de Breteuil as the...
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    encouraged citizens to complain of excess prices. He was a friend of Charles Alexandre de Calonne, Controller General of Finance, who consulted him on matters...
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    natural hair is extended on the top with an artificial hairpiece. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1784), London, Royal Collection...
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    taxes, used loans to pay off debts. State secretary of Finances Charles Alexandre de Calonne attempted to fix the deficit problem by asking for the taxation...
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    Controller-General of Finance Charles Alexandre de Calonne. This provided the Count of Provence, who abhorred the radical reforms proposed by Calonne, his long-awaiting...
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  • were often young: Charles Alexandre de Calonne became an intendant at the age of 32, Turgot and Louis Bénigne François Berthier de Sauvigny at the age...
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    of France, the Nobles of the Robe or Nobles of the Gown (French: noblesse de robe) were French aristocrats whose rank came from holding certain judicial...
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    Marie-Gabrielle de Gramont, Duchesse de Caderousse, 1784. Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, 1784. Royal Collection. Baronne de Crussol...
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    Koblenz (redirect from De Coblenz)
    émigrés living at Koblenz were Charles, Count of Artois, (future Charles X), ex-minister Charles Alexandre de Calonne, and Louis, Count of Provence (future...
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    she expresses loyalty for the ministers Jacques Necker and Charles Alexandre de Calonne. De Gouges opposes absolutism, but believed France should retain...
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    printmaker, painter Gaston Crunelle (1898–1990), classical flautist Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734–1802), statesman Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859)...
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    Louis made Charles d'Abancour minister of war, a suspicious choice since he was the nephew of ex-Finance Minister Charles Alexandre de Calonne who had joined...
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  • Louis Joseph Rose Mary Dunham as Marquise de Boulainvilliers Michael Petrovitch as Charles Alexandre de Calonne Lambert Wilson as Cocky Soldier Vincent...
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    to ratify Charles Alexandre de Calonne's program of badly needed financial reform, due to the special interests of its noble members. Calonne was the Controller-General...
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    Maximilien de Valicourt and Marie-Madeleine de Calonne, niece of minister Charles-Alexandre de Calonne. Charlotte Marie Joséphine de Bourgevin Vialart de Saint-Morys...
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  • politician; author of famous 1790 polemic against the Revolution. Charles Alexandre de Calonne French Controller-General of Finances from 1783 to 1787, whose...
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    Jacques Necker (category Victims of lettre de cachet)
    1781 De l'administration des finances de la France. Tome I; Tome II; Tome III, 1784, 3 vol. in-8° Correspondance de M. Necker avec M. de Calonne. (29...
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    Axel von Fersen the Younger (category De la Gardie family)
    himself in touch with Comte d'Artois, the exiled prince, and Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the former Controller-General; together they made plans to convince...
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    to public humiliation. He presently came into collision with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who demanded his dismissal in 1787. On 14 September 1788, anti-monarchy...
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    Quesnay (1694–1774). It influenced contemporary statesmen, such as Charles Alexandre de Calonne. The physiocrats were highly influential in the early history...
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    plan their vast headquarters on the rue du Bouloi in Paris. Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the Controller-General of Finances, obtained on an idea from...
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  • Encyclopédie Méthodique He was also employed by Charles Alexandre de Calonne and Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne. He inherited Morellet's archives, using...
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    privileges. This blocked the reforms of the king's minister Charles Alexandre de Calonne and the Assembly of Notables of January 1787. Added to this,...
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