The Turgot map of Paris (French: Plan de Turgot) is a highly accurate and detailed map of the city of Paris, France, as it existed in the 1730s. The map...

Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aulne (/tʊərˈɡoʊ/ toor-GOH; French: [tyʁgo]; 10 May 1727 – 18 March 1781), commonly known as Turgot, was a French economist...

Paris, the "Plan de Turgot" ("Turgot Map"), a detailed bird's-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739. Michel-Étienne Turgot was the...

1791. Condorcet later wrote Vie de M. Turgot (1786), a biography which spoke fondly of Turgot and advocated Turgot's economic theories. Condorcet continued...

Île de la Cité (French: [il də la site]; English: City Island), 22.5 hectares (56 acres) in size, is one of two natural islands in the Seine, in central...

Revolution, from 1789 to 1798. It was demolished in 1804 to make way for the rue de Rivoli. Before the revolution, the Salle du Manège ("Riding Hall"), situated...

Marais", Office de Tourisme de Paris "Maison professe Saint-Louis des Jésuites, Paris : plan et critique par Martellange du projet de façade du P. Derand"...

Couvent Saint-Jacques, Grand couvent des Jacobins or Couvent des Jacobins de la rue Saint-Jacques was a Dominican monastery on rue Saint-Jacques in Paris...

1900), p. 104, Bulletin de la Société de l'histoire de Paris et de l'Isle de France. "Plan de Turgot 1734–1739" [Map of Turgot 1734-1739] (in French) (RMN ed...

effect part of the works planned in the "Plan des Artistes",: 140  ordering the creation of what would become rue de Rivoli and rue de Castiglione over the...

Cygnes. Île Maquerelle or Île des Cygnes, on the Atlas de Trudaine of Paris, 1745, 1780 Plan de Turgot, planche 20 ; Gros caillou and Ile des cygnes 48°51′42″N...

Île Notre-Dame in Vassalieu Plan (1609) The islands Île aux Vaches and Île Notre-Dame in 1618 Île Saint-Louis in Turgot Map (1739) The island was first...

1862 (construction plans dated 25 July 1862) and in 1866 respectively (construction work carried out), at the time when the Hôtel de Besenval belonged...

preceded the entry court with the typical U-shaped plan of flanking wings and a central corps de logis at the western end. The house received plentiful...

economics. François Quesnay (1694–1774), the marquis de Mirabeau (1715–1789) and Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot (1727–1781) dominated the movement, which immediately...

Dominique Marie François René Galouzeau de Villepin (French pronunciation: [dɔminik maʁi fʁɑ̃swa ʁəne ɡaluzo də vilpɛ̃]; born 14 November 1953) is a French...

Turgot, and he died at Versailles on 21 November 1781. Maurepas is credited with contributions to the collection of facetiae known as the Etrennes de...

role in the London Conference of 1830, rebuking a partition plan developed by his son Charles de Flahaut and helping bring Leopold of Saxe-Coburg to the throne...

Palace and trampled to death. De Staël offered baron Malouet a plan of escape for the royal family to Dieppe. On 20 August De Narbonne arrived in England...

ignored 20 November and commemorated 26 March, the anniversary of his Plan de Guadalupe. The Mexico City Metro has a stop named for Madero's vice president...

implement a property tax on nobles and clergy. Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune, a noted French economist and Jacques Necker, an eminent French...

mansion became the property of the maréchal de Biron, hero of Fontenoy, whose name it has carried. A plan of the house and gardens as they were in 1752...

Grand Appartement to the Grande Galerie along the rue de Richelieu (1719–20; visible on the 1739 Turgot map of Paris). All of this work was lost, when the...

On 5 August Robespierre disclosed the discovery of a plan for the king to escape to Château de Gaillon. Aligning with Robespierre's stance, almost all...

concerns of early economists such as Johann Heinrich von Thünen, Jacques Turgot, Adam Smith, James Steuart, Thomas Robert Malthus, and David Ricardo. The...

Charles Louis de Secondat, baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu (18 January 1689 – 10 February 1755), generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a...

Robert Jacques Turgot. Between these and the rue de Rivoli are three courtyards, from east to west the Cour Khorsabad (formerly Cour de la Poste), Cour...

deregulation of the grain market, advocated by his economic liberal minister Turgot, but it resulted in an increase in bread prices. In periods of bad harvests...

Tellier, Face aux Colbert : les Le Tellier, Vauban, Turgot ... et l'avènement du libéralisme, Presses de l'Université du Québec, 1987, 816 pages. (Etexte)...

already evident to all minds of more or less perspicacity, as it was to Turgot and Necker, that the absolute power of the King had had its day, and that...