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en-wikipedia-org-5786		Anne Robert Jacques Turgot - Wikipedia			.html	text/html	6336	595	71	Anne Robert Jacques Turgot Wikipedia Among other works written during Turgot's intendancy were the Mémoire sur les mines et carrières, and the Mémoire sur la marque des fers, in which he protested against state regulation and interference and advocated free competition. Turgot owed his appointment as minister of the navy in July 1774 to Maurepas, the "Mentor" of Louis XVI, to whom he was warmly recommended by the abbé Very, a mutual friend. Turgot at once set to work to establish free trade in grain, but his edict, which was signed on 13 September 1774, met with strong opposition even in the conseil du roi. TURGOT...I present today one of the three greatest statesmen who fought unreason in France between the close of the Middle Ages and the outbreak of the French Revolution – Louis XI and Richelieu being the two other. Wikimedia Commons has media related to Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune.	./cache/en-wikipedia-org-5786.html	./txt/en-wikipedia-org-5786.txt