Turgot, Anne-Robert Jacques, Baron de l'Aulne

Manuscript volume containing a treatise on usury written by Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de l'Aume, Intendant of Limoges, and dated 27 Jan 1770 (at Limoges). This manuscript was probably Turgot's own copy.

Anne-Robert Jacques Turgot (1727-1781) became a deputy solicitor general in January 1752 and later a counselor magistrate to the Parlement (supreme court of law) in Paris (December 1752). In 1753 he bought the office of examiner of petitions, and by 1761 Turgot had drawn enough attention to himself for Louis XV to accept his nomination as Intendant to the administrative region of Limoges. He occupied this post for 13 years and there displayed his extraordinary capacities as an administrator, reformer, and economist. He was appointed comptroller general by Louis XIV on 24 Aug 1774, and tried unsuccessfully to institute financial reform.

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Part of the Goldsmith's Library of Economic Literature, initially collected by Herbert Somerton Foxwell and presented by the Goldsmith's Company to the University of London in 1903.

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Manuscript quarto. Bound in morocco, stamped with the arms of Turgot on both covers. Gnawed by mice at the bottom of the outer edge.

Compiled by Sarah Smith as part of the RSLP AIM25 Project.

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Printed in 1789 under the title Mémoires sur la prêt à interêt (a copy of which is in the Goldsmith's Library as GL 13798).