Talk:Jacques Necker
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Could someone fill in the full names of those which only have one name? -- Zoe
"unregretted by a single Frenchman"... alright, who copied word for word from a nineteenth-century history book? What a disgrace.24.224.143.211 00:42, 11 July 2006 (UTC)
- At the foot of the article, it overtly states that portions of the article come from the 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica, Eleventh Edition. -- Jmabel | Talk 03:29, 16 July 2006 (UTC)
I don't know how to add a 'citation needed' tag, but I think this sentence sounds pretty POVish if it doesn't have a citation. "Financially he proved equally incapable for a time of crisis, and could not understand the need of such extreme measures as the establishment of assignats in order to keep the country quiet." (Necker and the Revolution, Paragraph 2). I think the whole article, and especially the Necker and the Revolution section needs to be checked over for POV and lack of citations - but as a newbie to editing Wikipedia pages, I'm not willing to do so. 203.184.11.71 10:18, 16 September 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Loaning
"In October 1776 Necker was made director-general of the finances -- he could not be controller because of his Protestant faith.[3] He gained popularity in regulating the finances by attempting to divide the taille or poll tax more equally, by abolishing the vingtième d'industrie, and establishing monts de piété (establishments for loaning money on security"
Merriam-Webster gives the following definition of the word loaning: Function: noun Etymology: Middle English loning, from lone, alteration of lane Date: 14th century 1dialect British : lane 2dialect British : a milking yard
Did the author mean "lending"? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 193.212.171.26 (talk) 11:17, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
