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Anne Robert Jacques, Baron de Turgot (1727–1781)
Turgot, Anne Robert Jacques, Baron de l’Aulne (tür-gō’). An eminent French political economist and statesman; born at Paris, May 10, 1727; died there, March 8, 1781. He was minister of finance under Louis XVI. In political economy he was one of the chief representatives of the Physiocrat school (see Quesnay). It was he who said of Franklin (in a Latin hexameter), “he wrested the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.”