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Helena Rosenblatt: The Banker Who Brought Down the Old Regime: Jacques Necker (1732-1804)

Jacques Necker was finance minister to the King of France, Louis XVI. Necker raised the loans that caused the debt crisis, and which, in turn, launched the French Revolution of 1789. Despite the fact that he was such an important figure, and an original thinker, his ideas have been relatively neglected until now. Necker’s life and work shed light on the origins, and nature, of French liberalism. Helena Rosenblatt is professor of history, political science and French at the Graduate Center, CUNY. She is the author of Rousseau and Geneva. From the First Discourse to the Social Contract, 1749-1762 (Cambridge University Press, 1997), Liberal Values: Benjamin Constant and the Politics of Religion (Cambridge University Press, 2008) and, most recently, The Lost History of Liberalism from Ancient Rome to the Twenty-First Century (Princeton University Press, 2018).