D ' Abancourt was born in in Douai, and was the nephew of Charles Alexandre de Calonne.

The King refused, Necker was fired, and Charles Alexandre de Calonne was appointed to the Comptrollership.

Also in May, Étienne Charles de Loménie de Brienne, the archbishop of Toulouse and one of the queen's political allies, was appointed by the king to replace Calonne as the Finance Minister.

An Assembly of Notables ( the members consisted of magistrates, mayors, nobles and clergy ) was convened in February 1787 to ratify the financial reforms sought by the Controller-General of Finance Charles Alexandre de Calonne.

Wimbledon House, a separate residence close to the village at the south end of Parkside ( near present day Peek Crescent ), was home in the 1790s to the exiled French statesman Vicomte de Calonne, and later to the mother of writer Frederick Marryat.

He became an influential advocate in the parlement, and was prominent in opposition to the ministers Calonne and Loménie de Brienne.

In 1787 he was nominated as president of the Assembly of Notables, in which capacity he attacked the fiscal policy of Calonne, whom he succeeded as head of the conseil des finances ( finance minister ) on 1 May 1787.

Charles Alexandre, vicomte de Calonne ( 20 January 1734, Douai – 30 October 1802 ) was a French statesman, best known for his involvement in the French Revolution.

In the terrible crisis preceding the French Revolution, when successive ministers tried in vain to replenish the exhausted royal treasury, Calonne was summoned as Controller-General of Finances, an office he assumed on 3 November 1783.

The joy was general in Paris, where Calonne, accused of wishing to raise taxes, was known as Monsieur Déficit.

As a contemporary writer, Chamfort, remarked, Calonne was " applauded when he lit the fire, and condemned when he sounded the alarm.

" Necker had resigned in 1781, to be replaced temporarily by Calonne and Brienne, but he was restored to power in 1788.

Under Calonne he improved the returns from the farmers-general ; and he was largely instrumental in bringing about the erection of the octroi walls of Paris in place of the insufficient wooden barriers.

Again this failed, so Louis convoked the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal reform proposed by Calonne.

This provided Louis Stanislas, who abhorred the radical reforms proposed by Calonne, the opportunity he had long been waiting for to establish himself in politics.

* July 11 – July 22 – The Darmstädter Ferienkurse are held in Darmstadt with a series of lectures by Theodor W. Adorno, two public discussions of the new medium of electronic music, and world premieres of works by ( amongst others ) Richard Rodney Bennett, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Calonne, Aldo Clementi, Luc Ferrari, Alexander Goehr, Bengt Hambraeus, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen.

Supported by public opinion, it initiates criminal proceedings against the disgraced Calonne

Portrait of de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun ( 1784 ), London, Royal Collection

" Economic historians such as Eugene White, have however stressed the negative role played by Calonne who continued the restoration of a venal system of financial administration.

This policy also failed ; therefore, Louis convened the Assembly of Notables in 1787 to discuss a revolutionary new fiscal reform proposed by Calonne.

Necker had resigned in 1781 to be replaced by Calonne and Brienne, before being restored in 1788.

Necker had resigned in 1781 to be replaced by Calonne and Brienne, before being restored in 1788.

In 1781, Vergennes became chief of the council of finance, and, in 1783, he supported the nomination of Charles Alexandre de Calonne as Controller-General.

In February 1787 his finance minister, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, convened an Assembly of Notables, a group of nobles, clergy, bourgeoisie, and bureaucrats selected in order to bypass the local parliaments.

When this policy failed miserably, Louis dismissed him, and then replaced him in 1783 with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who increased public spending to " buy " the country's way out of debt.

* Charles Alexandre de Calonne, statesman

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When Necker's tax policy failed miserably, Louis dismissed him, and replaced him, in 1783, with Charles Alexandre de Calonne, who increased public spending in an attempt to " buy " the country's way out of debt.

In contrast, Charles Alexandre de Calonne, appointed finance minister in 1783, restored lavish spending reminiscent of the age of Louis XIV.

They were often young: Charles Alexandre de Calonne became an intendant at the age of 32, Turgot and Louis Bénigne François Berthier de Sauvigny at the age of 34, and Louis-Urbain-Aubert de Tourny at the age of 40.

* Charles Alexandre de Calonne in Metz, then in Lille, future Controller-General of Finances

* Charles Alexandre de Calonne, a French statesman.

Early émigrés included the comte d ' Artois ( the future Charles X of France ) and his two sons, the prince de Condé, the prince de Conti, the Polignac family, and ( slightly later ) Charles Alexandre de Calonne, the former finance minister.