Word: turgot
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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When the Revolution came he was a big man. He corrected Thomas Jefferson's rhetorical Declaration of Independence, went to France as Commissioner, crowned his career by persuading France to recognize U.S. independence (March 20, 1778). In France he became the rage, his plain, shrewd honesty a cult. Turgot wrote a verse about him: Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis-"He has snatched from heaven the thunderbolt and the scepter from tyrants." Ladies kissed him. Said he: "Somebody, it seems, gave it out that I lov'd Ladies; and then everybody presented me their Ladies (or the Ladies presented...
...26th of his series of lectures in French on "L'evolution du capitalisms on Europe du Xvle Siecle juequ's non jours" at 4.30 o'clock this afternoon in Emerson J. The particular phase of this subject for today's lecture will be "Le role et Poeuvre de Turgot...