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Michel-Étienne Turgot
French government official
Michel-Étienne Turgot (; French:[tyʁgo]; 9 June 1690 in Paris – 1 February 1751 in Paris) was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e.
Louis bretez
Mayor of Paris)[1] from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated with one of the most famous maps of Paris, the "Plan de Turgot" ("Turgot Map"),[2][3][4][5] a detailed bird's-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739.[6][7]
Michel-Étienne Turgot was the father of the famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, economist and Minister of Louis XVI and Étienne-François Turgot, naturalist, administrator of Malta and governor of French Guiana.[8] Son and father were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris.
References
- ^Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p. 17
- ^Phillips 1909, p. 1125; Bourne 1905, p. ix.
- ^University of Southern Maine.
- ^Turgo