TURGOT

ANNE ROBERT JAC-! 81), Fr. statesman and economist: eral, 1774; established free trade in: corn, and quelled bread riots, 1775; attempted reforms in royal household - abolished corvee system. of enforced labor, and put down jurandes or maitrises (trade corporations), revised government contracts, and attacked privileges of nobles. T.’s aim was to restore finances of government by taxing all cla es. His reforms made him unpopular with nobles, whose privileges he attacked, with clergy, who disliked his toleration of Protestants, and with merchants, whose trade he injured. Dismi ed in 1776