... from office in 1776. The dismissal of this great man, wrote Voltaire, crushes me. . . . Since that fatal day, I have not followed anything . . . and am waiting patiently for someone to cut our throats." Turgot's successors, following a mercantilist policy of government intervention, only made the French economy worse. In a desperate move to find money in the face of an uproar across the country ... France began to descend into a state of anarchy in which it would remain for the next 25 years. In towns where royalist mayors were still popular, bands of men invaded town halls and killed c...

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