" Distinguishing himself as Intendant, on the death of Louis XV the King called Turgot to the Council of State, and in August, 1774, Turgot became Minister of Finance.

Turgot was, indeed, a very singular hero with whom to open the career of literary Jacobin.

That Turgot, for example, was the only man that ever lived who might have done more for society than he was allowed to do, and spared society a cataclysm?