Jacques+Necker

**JACQUES NECKER ** **FR AN CE  **

  30 Septembre, 1732 au 9 Avril, 1804 Français de conseiller financier pour Louis XVI de 1777 à 1781 et de nouveau de 1788 à 178  French Financial Advisor to Louis XVI from 1777 to 1781 and 1788 to 1789

I was born in 1732 in Geneva, Switzerland to Karl Friedrich Necker and Jeanne-Marie Gautier, and became the Director-General of Finance for Louis XVI for a great portion of his reign. I was most known for attempting to solve the problems of taxation by advocating for the meeting of the first Estates-General meeting in 175 years, and am regarded to be one of the finest financiers of the eighteenth century. However, though I was popular for being a supporter of the people, numerous occurrences disrupted my ability to reverse the course of the revolution, resulting in my dismissal by the king and my eventual demise in the public arena.

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