anne-robert-jacques

Updated: May 24, 2025

Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot was born in Paris on the 10th of May 1727. He died in 1781. His life covered rather more than half a century, extending, if we may put it a little roughly, over the middle fifty years of the eighteenth century. This middle period marks the exact date of the decisive and immediate preparation for the Revolution.

John Morley - Critical Miscellanies (Vol. 2 of 3): Turgot