TURGOT...I present today one of the three greatest statesmen who fought unreason in France between the close of the Middle Ages and the outbreak of the French Revolution-Louis XI and Richelieu being the two other. (Andrew Dickson White)

TURGOT...I present today one of the three greatest statesmen who fought unreason in France between the close of the Middle Ages and the outbreak of the French Revolution-Louis XI and Richelieu being the two other.

Andrew Dickson White

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