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See also:LAVERDY, See also:CLEMENT See also:CHARLES See also:FRANCOIS DE (1723-1793) , See also:French statesman, was a member of the See also:parlement of See also:Paris when the See also:case against the See also:Jesuits came before that See also:body in See also:August 1761. He demanded the suppression of the See also:- ORDER
- ORDER (through Fr. ordre, for earlier ordene, from Lat. ordo, ordinis, rank, service, arrangement; the ultimate source is generally taken to be the root seen in Lat. oriri, rise, arise, begin; cf. " origin ")
- ORDER, HOLY
order and thus acquired popularity. See also:- LOUIS
- LOUIS (804–876)
- LOUIS (893–911)
- LOUIS, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, BARON (1755-1837)
- LOUIS, or LEWIS (from the Frankish Chlodowich, Chlodwig, Latinized as Chlodowius, Lodhuwicus, Lodhuvicus, whence-in the Strassburg oath of 842-0. Fr. Lodhuwigs, then Chlovis, Loys and later Louis, whence Span. Luiz and—through the Angevin kings—Hungarian
Louis XV. named him controller-See also:general of the finances in See also:December 1763, but the See also:burden was See also:great and Laverdy knew nothing of See also:finance. Three months after his nomination he forbade anything of any See also:kind whatever to be printed concerning his See also:administration, thus refusing See also:advice as well as censure. He used all sorts of expedients, sometimes dishonest, to replenish the See also:treasury, and was even accused of having himself profited from the See also:commerce in See also:wheat. A See also:court intrigue led to his sudden dismissal on the 1st of See also:October 1768. Henceforward he lived in retirement until, during the Revolution, he was involved in the charges against the financiers of the old regime. The Revolutionary tribunal condemned him to See also:death, and he was guillotined on the 24th of See also:November
1793.
See A. Jobez, La See also:France sous Louis X V (1869).
End of Article: LAVERDY, CLEMENT CHARLES FRANCOIS DE (1723-1793)
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