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Calonne, Charles Alexandre de
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French financier under Louis XVI., born at Douay; a man of "fiscal genius; genius for persuading, before all things for borrowing"; succeeded Necker in 1783 as comptroller-general of the finances in France; after four years of desperate attempts at financial adjustment, could do nothing but convoke the Notables in 1787; could give no account of his administration that would satisfy them; was dismissed, and had to quit Paris and France; "his task to raise the wind and the winds," says Carlyle, "and he did it," referring to the Revolution he provoked; was permitted by Napoleon to return to France, where he died in embarrassed circumstances (1734-1802).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Calonne, Charles Alexandre de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/calonne-charles-alexandre-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Calonne, Charles Alexandre de'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/​encyclopedias/​eng/​nut/​c/calonne-charles-alexandre-de.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.