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    l'Assemblée des notables ... by Jacques Necker, p. 31 Historical Review of the Administration of Mr. Necker by Jacques Necker, p. 373 "The Encyclopedists...
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    277 feet (84 m). The island is named after Jacques Necker, a finance minister of Louis XVI. Politically, Necker Island is part of the City and County of...
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    ambitious Swiss financier Jacques Necker but was uncertain whether she wanted to remarry at all. Within a few months, however, Necker turned his attention...
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    The Necker–Enfants Malades Hospital (French: Hôpital Necker-Enfants Malades [opital nɛkɛʁ ɑ̃fɑ̃ malad]) is a French teaching hospital in the 15th arrondissement...
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    Furthermore, Finance Minister Calonne, Louis XVI's replacement for Jacques Necker, thought that lavish spending would secure loans by presenting the monarchy...
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    ISBN 0679-726101. Bredin, Jean-Denis. Une singulière famille: Jacques Necker, Suzanne Necker et Germaine de Staël. Paris: Fayard, 1999 (ISBN 2213602808)...
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    "Report to the King") was a document published in February 1781 by Jacques Necker, finance minister to King Louis XVI, in which he presented the state...
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    opposition to social and financial reforms proposed by Anne Robert Jacques Turgot and Jacques Necker. Several events were linked to Marie Antoinette during the...
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  • Finance under Louis XVI Madame Necker (1737–1794), French-Swiss salonist and writer. Wife of Jacques Necker. Louis Albert Necker (1786–1861), Swiss crystallographer...
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    He was the elder brother of Jacques Necker, minister of Finance in France when the French Revolution broke out. Louis Necker studied mathematics and physics...
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    at age 19, Albertine married Jacques Necker (1757-1825), a captain in the French cavalry. He was the son of Louis Necker and the nephew and namesake of...
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    Turgot was dismissed and Malesherbes resigned, to be replaced by Jacques Necker. Necker supported the American Revolution, and he carried out a policy of...
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    the Necker cube. He was born in the Republic of Geneva, the son of botanist Professor Jacques Necker, nephew and namesake of statesman Jacques Necker, and...
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    reproduced on the U.S. hundred dollar bill. His portrait of the financier Jacques Necker hung at Voltaire's Coppet Castle. Several reduced versions were made...
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    the daughter of the French Minister of Finance, Jacques Necker, mademoiselle Anne Louise Germaine Necker, who was to achieve fame as "Madame de Staël"....
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    replaced by the Swiss magnate Jacques Necker. In November 1788, a second Assembly of Notables was convened by Jacques Necker, to consider the makeup of the...
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  • l'émission de dix-neuf cents millions d'assignats', Œuvres complètes de Jacques Necker (Paris, 1821), vii, 430–447. De l'opinion de M. Camus, (Paris, 1789)...
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    President of the National Convention (4 June 1793 – 27 July 1794) with Jean Jacques Régis de Cambacérès as President of the National Convention (7 October...
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    He agreed to become Chief minister once they had ousted Jacques Necker from the post. Necker was popular, but royalists saw him as a dangerous publicity-seeker...
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  • moved inside the orbit of Neptune for the last time before 1979. 1789 – Jacques Necker is dismissed as France's Finance Minister sparking the Storming of the...
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  • ("Paradox on the Comedian"). During a dinner at the home of statesman Jacques Necker, a remark was made to Diderot which left him speechless at the time...
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    evidence exists to confirm her accounts. On 12 July 1789, wax heads of Jacques Necker and the duc d'Orléans made by Curtius were carried in a protest march...
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  • figures who appear in the game's story include Maximillien Robespierre, Jacques Necker and Alessandro Cagliostro. The game was developed by French studio Spiders...
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  • 1789 – In response to the dismissal of the French finance minister Jacques Necker, the radical journalist Camille Desmoulins gives a speech which results...
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    Belle-Isle. In 1771 he was appointed Intendant of Finances. In 1789, when Jacques Necker was dismissed, the reactionary Court party nominated Foullon as Controller-General...
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  • Magnus Staël von Holstein and Madame de Staël, the granddaughter of Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod, wife to Victor de Broglie (1785–1870), and mother...
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    group began to call itself the National Assembly.[citation needed] Jacques Necker, finance minister of Louis XVI, had earlier proposed that the king hold...
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  • intervention in the American Revolutionary War. Flour War. His rivalship with Jacques Necker and the Count of Maurepas's envy caused his fall. Accused to negligence...
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    20 June, vowed to write a constitution for the kingdom. On 11 July, Jacques Necker, the finance minister of Louis XVI, who was sympathetic to the Third...
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    admirer of Jacques Necker, whose influence at court he helped maintain. He retired when Necker was dismissed on 12 July 1789, but on Necker's recall after...
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