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Charles Alexandre de Calonne (20 January 1734 – 30 October 1802), titled Count of Hannonville in 1759, was a French statesman, best known for being Louis XVI's Controller-General of Finances (minister of finance) in the years leading up to the French revolution.
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne (born Jan. 20, 1734, Douai, France—died Oct. 29, 1802, Paris) was a French statesman whose efforts to reform the structure of his nation’s finance and administration precipitated the governmental crisis that led to the French Revolution of 1789.
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Mar 29, 2022 · The Assembly of Notables was called at the behest of Charles Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802), the latest in a long string of finance ministers to Louis XVI. What did the Assembly of Notables of 1787 do?
- The meeting of the Assembly of Notables in 1787 was a last-ditch effort by the ministers of King Louis XVI of France (r. 1774-1792) to fix the disa...
- The Assembly of Notables debated Controller-General of Finances Charles Alexandre de Calonne's financial reforms but did not reach a useful conclus...
- The assembly put both France's financial and societal problems on full display for all the world to see and forced the king into convening an Estat...
Charles-Alexandre de Calonne, comte d'Hannonville, est un magistrat, administrateur, économiste et homme politique français, né à Douai le 20 janvier 1734 et mort à Paris le 30 octobre 1802.
Charles Alexandre de Calonne (shärl älĕksäN´drə də kälōn´), 1734–1802, French statesman, controller general of finances (1783–87). Faced with a huge public debt and a steadily deteriorating financial situation, Calonne adopted a spending policy to inspire confidence in the nation's financial position.
In 1783, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, a provincial noble, became royal finance minister. At first, he, like Vergennes, saw no need to rationalize the royal treasury or to appease the Parlements.
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In 1783 Charles-Alexandre de Calonne (1734-1802) had become Controller General of Finance to Louis XVI in 1783. His unsuccessful efforts to reform the structure of France's finance and administration precipitated the governmental crisis that led to the French Revolution of 1789.
