Michel-Étienne Turgot

Michel-Étienne Turgot (/tʊərˈɡoʊ/; French: [tyʁgo]; 9 June 1690 in Paris – 1 February 1751 in Paris) was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e. Mayor of Paris)^[1] from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated with one of the most famous maps of Paris, the "Plan de Turgot" ("Turgot Map"),^[2][3][4][5] a detailed bird's-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739.^[6][7]

Michel-Etienne Turgo, by Van Loo, 1739.

The Paris Foreign Missions Society in the 1739 "Plan Turgot".

Michel-Étienne Turgot was the father of the famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, economist and Minister of Louis XVI and Étienne-François Turgot, naturalist, administrator of Malta and governor of French Guiana.^[8] Son and father were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris.

References

1. Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p. 17
2. Phillips 1909, p. 1125; Bourne 1905, p. ix.
3. University of Southern Maine.
4. Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p. 17
5. Martin's History of France by Henri Martin, p. 163
6. Brain Chemistry and the French Connection, 1791–1841 by Donald Bayley Tower, p. 105
7. Law, Magistracy, and Crime in Old Regime Paris, 1735–1789 by Richard Mowery Andrews p. 4
8. Turgot by Leon Say, Gustave Masson, p. 17

Bibliography

• Bourne, Henry E. (1905). A History of Mediaeval and Modern Europe. New York: Longmans, Grenn.
• Phillips, Philip Lee (1909). A List of Geographical Atlases in the Library of Congress. Vol I: Atlases. Washington: Government Printing Office.
• Say, Léon (1888). Turgot, translated by Gustave Masson. London: George Routledge and Sons. Copy at the Internet Archive.

External links

• Plan de Paris, University of Southern Maine
• Plan de Paris, University of Chicago
• (in French) Plan de Paris, scanned from the original edition, with zoom and navigation