Michel-Étienne Turgot

Michel-Etienne Turgo, by Van Loo, 1739.

The Paris Foreign Missions Society in the 1739 "Plan Turgot".

Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690–1751)^[1] was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e. Mayor of Paris)^[2] from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated to one of the most famous maps of Paris, the "Plan de Turgot" or "Plan Turgot",^[3][4][5] a detailed bird-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.^[8] Both were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris.

Notes

1. ^ University of Southern Maine
2. ^ Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p.17
3. ^ University of Southern Maine
4. ^ Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p.17
5. ^ Martin's History of France by Henri Martin, p.163
6. ^ Brain Chemistry and the French Connection, 1791-1841 by Donald Bayley Tower, p.105 [1]
7. ^ Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735-1789 by Richard Mowery Andrews p.4 [2]
8. ^ Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p.17

External links

• Plan de Paris, University of Southern Maine
• Plan de Paris, University of Chicago
• (French) Plan de Paris, scanned from the original edition, with zoom and navigation

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Name	Turgot, Michel-Etienne
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Date of birth	1690
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Date of death	1751
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