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Jacques Necker
Standard Name: Necker, Jacques
Connections
| Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
|---|---|---|
| Family and Intimate relationships | Germaine de Staël | Her father, Jacques Necker
, became the Director General of Finance to the French king in June 1777, an extraordinary post for a foreigner and a commoner. After publishing an account of the national finances... |
| Material Conditions of Writing | Germaine de Staël | As a child she had to hide her writing from her father
. He had hated his wife to write, and he teased his daughter about it by calling her Monsieur of the sainted writing... |
| Textual Production | Mary Wollstonecraft | MW
published Of the Importance of Religious Opinions, a translation of Jacques Necker
's L'Importance des opinions religieuses. |
Timeline
26 or 27 August 1788: Jacques Necker was recalled as French Director...
National or international item
26 or 27 August 1788
Jacques Necker
was recalled as French Director of Finances and Minister of State, with a brief to effect reforms.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
ix
Paxton, John. Companion to the French Revolution. Facts on File, 1988.
213
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
119
Soboul says this happened on 26 August; Paxton says 27 August.
11 July 1789: Louis XVI dismissed Necker from the post...
National or international item
11 July 1789
Louis XVI
dismissed Necker
from the post of Director of Finances and Minister of State.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
x
Soboul, Albert. The French Revolution 1787-1799. Translators Forrest, Alan and Colin Jones, Vintage, 1975.
137-41
Lefebvre, Georges. “A Series of Class Revolts”. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations, edited by Frank A. Kafker et al., 4th Edition, R. E. Krieger, 1989, pp. 3-33.
20, 26-7
14 July 1789: The Bastille, the most notorious prison in...
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14 July 1789
The Bastille, the most notorious prison in Paris, was stormed and liberated by a revolutionary mob; the date became symbolic of the Revolution.
Kafker, Frank A., and James M. Laux, editors. The French Revolution: Conflicting Interpretations. 4th ed., R. E. Krieger, 1989.
x
Elson Roessler, Shirley. Out of the Shadows: Women and Politics in the French Revolution, 1789-95. Peter Lang, 1996.
8
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