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Nec·ker, Jacques

/ˈnekər/
- 1. (1732–1804), Swiss-born banker and director general of French finances (1777–81; 1788–9). In 1789 he recommended summoning the States General and was dismissed, this being one of the factors that resulted in the storming of the Bastille.
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Jacques Necker
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Genevan minister resident in France, French statesman, and finance minister of Louis XVI
Jacques Necker (30 September 1732 – 9 April 1804) was a Genevan banker and statesman who served as finance minister for Louis XVI. He was a reformer, but his innovations sometimes caused great discontent. Necker was a constitutional monarchist, a political economist, and a moralist, who wrote a severe critique of the new principle of equality before the law. Necker initially... Wikipedia
- Born: September 30, 1732, Geneva, Switzerland
- Died: April 9, 1804, Geneva, Switzerland
- Spouse: Suzanne Curchod(m 1764 - 1794)
- Children: Germaine de Staël
- Parents: Jeanne Marie Gautier, Karl Friedrich Necker
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