Turgot Anne Robert Jacques(1727 - 1781)

Magistrate, he was intendant of Limoges from 1761 to 1774, putting into practice his theories (close to the ideas of the physiocrats ) and publishing his Reflections on the formation and distribution of wealth (1766). Comptroller General of Finances (1774-1776), he tried to apply a vast program of reforms, financial as well as economic and social (freedom of trade and industry; abolition of corporations; taxation of all landowners, including including the nobles, etc.), but who hardly survived his disgrace (May 1776), fomented by the privileged.

Theodebert I (504 - 548)

Urban II (1042 - 1099)

Tacit
Despite being an influential man in Rome at the end of the first century AD, we do not have much biographical material about the life of Tacitus. Even his name is subject to controversy, although in recent decades this seems to have been resolved with the discovery of what some have wanted to recogn
polybius
We can pin Polybius date of birth to around 210-200 BC. in Megalopolis, a city located in the Greek region of Arcadia and capital of the Achaean League, of which his father, Licortas, was an outstanding leader. We know little about his youth, although it seems that, as a member of a family of the lo
Xenophon
Unlike what happens with Herodotus and Thucydides, we have more information about Xenophons biography thanks to the references to his life contained in his works and to the writings of Diogenes Laertius. Xenophon was born in Athens in 430 BC. During the Peloponnesian War, in the bosom of a wealthy f
August
Augustus is the first Roman emperor. He is Caesars great-nephew and adopted son. On his death, Octave (first name of Augustus), Marc-Antoine and Lépide form a triumvirate and share the world. The naval victory of Actium in 31 BC. J.-C consecrates him master of the lands and the seas by definitively