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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Marie Antoinette (redirect from Marie-Antoinette de Habsbourg-Lorraine)
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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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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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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Louis XVI (redirect from Louis-Auguste de France)
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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Storming of the Bastille (redirect from Comte de Solages)
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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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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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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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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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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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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Louis XVIII (redirect from Louis Stanislas Xavier de France)
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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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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printmaker, painter Gaston Crunelle (1898–1990), classical flautist Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734–1802), statesman Marceline Desbordes-Valmore (1786–1859)...
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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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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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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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Nobles of the Robe (redirect from Noblesse de robe)
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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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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Reading Abbey Girls' School (redirect from Dominique de St Quentin)
School became a place of refuge for émigrés such as statesman Charles Alexandre de Calonne. In addition to this profligate hospitality, St Quentin gambled...
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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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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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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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Jacques Necker (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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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Estates General of 1789 (redirect from Etats généraux de 1789)
refused to ratify Charles Alexandre de Calonne's program of financial reform, due to the competing interests of its noble members. Calonne was the Controller-General...
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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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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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Land value tax (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
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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populations. 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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