Robert François Quesnay de Saint-Germain

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Robert François Joseph Quesnay de Saint-Germain (born January 23, 1751 in Valenciennes ; April 8, 1805 in Bassanges , Maine-et-Loire ) was a French politician, economist and lawyer.

He was a grandson of the famous economist François Quesnay . He went to school in Nevers and received an agricultural education from his father. He then traveled abroad and found a friendly reception in Karlsruhe and Poland, among others, thanks to the reputation of his grandfather. He was then secretary to Anne Robert Jacques Turgot when this minister was (1774-1776), and in the 1770s advisor in the Ministry of Finance (Cours des aides), where he was councilor in 1776. He welcomed the French Revolution and in 1790 became a judge at the District Court (Tribunal) in Saumur . 1791/92 he was briefly elected representative in the legislative assembly (Deputy for Maine-et-Loire). Then he withdrew into private life. After Napoleon's coup in 1799, which he supported, he became president of the civil court in Saumur. After a few years, however, he retired at his castle in Bassanges.

He was active in occult Masonic circles, which led to confusion with the better-known Count of Saint-Germain . Isabel Cooper-Oakley mentioned him as a participant at an international Masonic meeting in Paris in 1785, but he was probably referring to Quesnay de Saint-Germain (the Count of Saint Germain himself had already died at this point).

His brother Alexandre-Marie Quesnay de Beaurepaire (* around 1755 to 1820) served in the American Revolutionary War in the Virginia militia and founded a French school in Philadelphia and a French academy in Richmond, Virginia. Nothing came of the further plans, as Quesnay de Beaurepaire was surprised in Paris by the French Revolution, in which he played an active role.

Fonts

  • Projet d'instructions et pouvoirs généraux et spéciaux à donner aux députés des Etats généraux, Paris 1789

Web links

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  1. ^ Entry in Christian Gottlieb Jöchers Gelehrtenlexikon, Bremen 1819
  2. ↑ David Pratt, Saint Germain
  3. ^ Isabel Cooper-Oakley, The Comte de Saint Germain, 1912, p. 130, Sacred Texts
  4. ↑ John G. Roberts, Francois Quesnay's Heir, The Virginia Magazine of History and Historiography, Volume 50, 1942, pp. 143-150
personal data
SURNAME Saint-Germain, Robert François Quesnay de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Saint-Germain, Robert François Joseph Quesnay de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French politician, lawyer and economist
DATE OF BIRTH January 23, 1751
PLACE OF BIRTH Valenciennes
DATE OF DEATH April 8, 1805
Place of death Bassanges