Louis Gabriel Taboureau of Réaux

Louis Gabriel Taboureau of Réaux is a French statesman born in Paris the October 20th 1718 and died in Paris the May 31st 1782.

Biography

Resulting from a middle-class family of Touraine, anoblie in 1713, Louis Gabriel Taboureau of Réaux was Main of the requests, then general intendant of Hainaut and Cambrésis of the November 11th 1764 with 1775.

It was a conservative by principle and by temperament, character passably unobtrusive but surrounded of the regard and the general consideration, which one undoubtedly chooses for these reasons to exert nominally the functions of General inspector of finances of the October 21st 1776 with the June 29th 1777, while Jacques Necker - which could not be appointed general inspector because it was Protestant - directed indeed the department with the title of managing director of the Treasury .

According to Maurepas, which had been charged to lead the negotiations with Necker, it was a question of choosing “a man of good reputation, without mischievousness because he will not have anything to make to leave the things such as they are until businesses of money and credit being examined, one is in the case of to make reasonable improvements”. The interested party wanted to refuse this proposal by making the point that “when one spent fifty years, one is not specific any more to the public affairs”, but this refusal undoubtedly made only convince Maurepas which it held his man.

In fact, there does not exist about any decision which one can personally allot to Taboureau of Réaux during his passage to the system check. The interested party was object of gibes: it was called “the crutch”. He suffered from it more especially as he did not approve the reforms of Necker and wanted to resign in January 1777, then in April, but Louis XVI refused by twice. Ultimately, on June 29th, 1777, the King had to be solved there in front of the categorical refusal of the general inspector sign the edict removing the general receivers of finances.

Taboureau was replaced by Necker with the title of managing director of finances . It was named with the royal Council of finances the shortly after its resignation (June 30th, 1777). He died in 1782 without posterity.

References

External bonds

Note of the Committee of history of the French ministry of the economy, finances and industry

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