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See also:CABARRUS, See also:FRANCOIS (1752-1810) , See also:French adventurer and See also:Spanish financier, was See also:born at See also:Bayonne, where his See also:father was a See also:merchant. Being sent into See also:Spain on business he See also:fell in love with a Spanish See also:lady, and marrying her, settled in See also:Madrid. Here his private business was the manufacture of See also:soap; but he soon began to See also:interest himself in the public questions which were ventilated even at the See also:court of Spain. The enlightenment of the 18th See also:century had penetrated as far as Madrid; the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king, See also:Charles III., was favourable to reform; and a circle of men animated by the new spirit were trying to infuse fresh vigour into an enfeebled See also:state. Among these Cabarrus became conspicuous, especially in See also:finance. He originated a See also:bank, and a See also:company to See also:trade with the Philippine Islands; and as one of the See also:council of finance he had planned many reforms in that See also:department of the See also:administration, when Charles III. died (1788), and the reactionary See also:government of Charles IV. arrested every See also:kind of enlightened progress. The men who had taken an active See also:part in reform were suspected and prosecuted. Cabarrus himself was accused of See also:embezzlement and thrown into See also:prison. After a confinement of two years he was released, created a See also:count and employed in many See also:honourable See also:missions; he would even have been sent to See also:Paris as Spanish See also:ambassador, had not the See also:Directory objected to him as being of French See also:birth. Cabarrus took no part in the transactions by which Charles IV. was obliged to abdicate and make way for See also:Joseph, See also:brother of See also:Napoleon, but his French birth and intimate knowledge of Spanish affairsrecommended him to the See also:emperor as the fittest See also:person for the difficult See also:post of See also:minister of finance, which he held at his See also:death. His beautiful daughter Therese, under the name of Madame See also:Tallien (afterwards princess of See also:Chimay), played an interesting part in the later stages of the French Revolution.
End of Article: CABARRUS, FRANCOIS (1752-1810)
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