[French East India Company]: [Necker, Jacques]:

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RÉPONSE AU MÉMOIRE DE M. L'ABBÉ MORELLET, SUR LA COMPAGNIE DES INDES, IMPRIMÉE EN EXÉCUTION DE LA DÉLIBERATION DE MRS. LES ACTIONNAIRES, PRISE DANS L'ASSEMBLÉE GÉNÉRALE DU 8 AOUT ... Jacques Necker (1732-1804) was serving as a director of the French East India Company when he penned this rebuttal to the MÉMOIRE of Abbe Morellet. Morellet had argued against the Compagnie's trading monopoly, which Necker here defends. Necker would become Finance Minister under Louis XVI until the French Revolution.

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