Jacques Necker

✶September 30, 1732

†April 9, 1804

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Jacques Necker was a Genevan banker, financier and statesman who served as finance minister of France for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law.

Genevan minister resident in France, French statesman, and finance minister of Louis XVI (1732-1804)

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