deputy-counsellor

Updated: May 29, 2025

As Turgot had studied law as well as theology, no time was lost, and he formally entered the profession of the law as Deputy-Counsellor of the Procureur-Général at the beginning of 1752. His college friends had remonstrated warmly at this surrender of a brilliant prospect.

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