Talk:Jacques Necker

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Untitled[edit]

Could someone fill in the full names of those which only have one name? -- Zoe

I believe these are now all appropriately linked. - Jmabel | Talk 03:34, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

"unregretted by a single Frenchman"... alright, who copied word for word from a nineteenth-century history book? What a disgrace.24.224.143.211 00:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

At the foot of the article, it overtly states that portions of the article come from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)

I don't know how to add a 'citation needed' tag, but I think this sentence sounds pretty POVish if it doesn't have a citation. "Financially he proved equally incapable for a time of crisis, and could not understand the need of such extreme measures as the establishment of assignats in order to keep the country quiet." (Necker and the Revolution, Paragraph 2). I think the whole article, and especially the Necker and the Revolution section needs to be checked over for POV and lack of citations - but as a newbie to editing Wikipedia pages, I'm not willing to do so. 203.184.11.71 10:18, 16 September 2007 (UTC)

Loaning[edit]

"In October 1776 Necker was made director-general of the finances -- he could not be controller because of his Protestant faith.[3] He gained popularity in regulating the finances by attempting to divide the taille or poll tax more equally, by abolishing the vingtième d'industrie, and establishing monts de piété (establishments for loaning money on security"

Merriam-Webster gives the following definition of the word loaning: Function: noun Etymology: Middle English loning, from lone, alteration of lane Date: 14th century 1dialect British : lane 2dialect British : a milking yard

Did the author mean "lending"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.212.171.26 (talk) 11:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)

Translation into Chinese Wikipedia[edit]

The 14:16, 27 December 2008 Wetman version of this article is translated into Chinese Wikipedia to make an existing article more complete.--Wing (talk) 12:52, 1 January 2009 (UTC)

The 19th-century mechanical reproductive engraving at right merely reproduces the Duplessis portrait at the head of the disinfobox (now given a caption crediting Duplessis). I've removed it here and am formatting the other two gallery images to assort with relevant text.--Wetman (talk) 20:16, 17 December 2009 (UTC)

Citation needed? No way.[edit]

It is common knowledge that Mme de Stael was the daughter of Jacques Necker and Suzanne Curchod.

Finance Minister of France - Historically ambiguous[edit]

Pertaining to the "Finance Minister of France" section: Jacques Necker was dismissed from his post as finance minister in around 1781, as Calonne took the post in 1783. If Necker took a different post in the government at the time, that's not clear in the writeup or in the timeline of his postings. If he left and returned to government, the article does not mention when he returned. I would like some clarification on what happened and when in regards to his postings, especially as the article says he controlled the finances of France through a period when he had resigned (or been dismissed from) his post. Thegreatmuka (talk) 02:09, 30 June 2014 (UTC)

Necker was "scared to death"[edit]

Who the hell wrote this, lol

"Necker, suspected of reactionary tendencies, traveled east to Arcis-sur-Aube and Vesoul, where he was arrested and scared to death, but on 11 September he was allowed to leave the country."

Is this a joke or what? Lcduke (talk) 01:46, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

It is easy to find out who wrote this. To me it means you can't be a serious Wikipedian and did not make an effort. I suppose you did not study the subject either. What does lol mean here? What are you studying? Taksen (talk) 11:03, 15 April 2019 (UTC)

lol, I don't know what a "serious Wikipedian" is nor do I want to be one; I'm just pointing out that saying someone was "scared to death" and giving no further details about his arrest is ridiculous for an encylopaedic article — Preceding unsigned comment added by Lcduke (talk • contribs) 09:00, 20 April 2019 (UTC)

It's a play of words in English to point out that the guillotine did not slice through Necker's neck. Carlm0404 (talk) 19:37, 27 April 2020 (UTC)

Anh Duc Wiki -3

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