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CALONNE, CHARLES ALEXANDRE DE (1734-1802)

This article appears in Volume V05, Page 60 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: CAL-CAR
CALONNE, CHARLES ALEXANDRE DE (1734-1802) , French statesman, was born at Douai of a good family. He entered the profession of the law, and became in succession advocate to the general council of Artois, procureur to the parlement of Douai, master of requests, then intendant of Metz (1768) and of Lille (1774). He seems to have been a man of
great
  business capacity, gay and careless in temperament, and thoroughly unscrupulous in political action. In the terrible crisis of affairs preceding the French Revolution, when minister after minister, tried in vain to replenish the exhausted royal treasury and was dismissed for want of success,
Calonne
  was summoned to take the general
control
  of affairs. He assumed office on the 3rd of November 1783. He owed the position to
Vergennes
 , who for three years and a half continued to support him; but the king was not well disposed towards him, and, according to the testimony of the Austrian
ambassador
 , his reputation with the public was extremely poor. In taking office he found " 600 millions to pay and neither money nor credit." At first he attempted to develop the latter, and to carry on the government by means of loans in such a way as to maintain public confidence in its solvency. In October 1785 he recoined the gold coinage, and he developed the caisse d' escompte. But these
measures
  failing, he proposed to the king the suppression of internal customs, duties and the taxation of the property of nobles and clergy. Turgot and Necker had attempted these reforms, and
Calonne
  attributed their failure to the malevolent criticism of the parlements. Therefore he had an assembly of " notables " called together in January 1787. Before it he exposed the deficit in the treasury, and proposed the
establishment
  of a subvention territoriale, which should be levied on all property without distinction. This suppression of privileges was badly received by the privileged notables. Calonne, angered, printed his reports and so alienated the court. Louis XVI. dismissed him on the 8th of April 1787 and exiled him to Lorraine. The joy was general in Paris, where Calonne, accused of wishing to augment the imposts, was known as " Monsieur Deficit." In reality his audacious plan of reforms, which Necker took up later, might have saved the monarchy had it been firmly seconded by the king. Calonne soon afterwards passed over to England, and during his residence there kept up a polemical correspondence with Necker on the finances. In 1789, when the states-general were about to assemble, he crossed over to Flanders in the hope of being allowed to offer himself for election, but he was sternly forbidden to enter France. In revenge he joined the emigre party at Coblenz, wrote in their favour, and expended nearly all the fortune brought him by his wife, a wealthy widow. In 18o2, having again taken up his abode in London, he received permission from
Napoleon
  to return to France. He died on the 3oth of October 1802, about a month after his arrival in his native country.
See Ch. Gomel, Les Causes financieres de la Revolution (Paris, 1893) R. Stourm, Les Finances de l'ancien regime et de la Revolution (a vols., Paris, 1885); Susane, La Tactique financilre de Calonne, with bibliography (Paris, 1902).


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