Jacques Necker
Genevan minister resident in France, French statesman, and finance minister of Louis XVI (1732-1804) · Switzerland · Politicians · Died at 71
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Something wrong?A Geneva banker who tried to save the French crown by publishing its debts - then got fired twice, the second time sparking the Bastille.
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Necker, a Genevan financier, became France's finance minister in July 1777 under Louis XVI. In 1781 he broke absolute-monarchy protocol by publishing the Compte rendu, laying the state's budget before the public for the first time - a move that brought him fame and dismissal within months. By 1788, as compounding debt pushed France toward collapse, the king summoned him back. His second firing on 11 July 1789 helped trigger the Storming of the Bastille; within two days both king and assembly called him home. He returned in triumph and pushed for tax reform, but the Constituent Assembly blocked him. He resigned in September 1790 to indifference, a reformer whose timing had run out.
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