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Six Edicts
French history
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issued by Turgot
- In Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot, baron de l’Aulne: Ministry
He introduced his Six Edicts in 1776. Four of them (suppressing certain dues and offices) were of no great importance, and the fifth (suppressing the guilds of Paris) encountered no serious opposition. It was against the sixth edict, that abolishing the corvée, that his enemies, who defended privilege,…
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