Joseph Marie Terray
Joseph Marie Terray | |
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23rd Controller-General of Finances | |
In office 22 December 1769 – 24 August 1774 | |
Nominated by | René Nicolas de Maupeou |
Monarch | Louis XV |
Preceded by | Étienne Maynon d'Invault |
Succeeded by | Anne Robert Jacques Turgot |
Personal details | |
Born | December 1715 Boën, France |
Died | 18 February 1778 (age 62) Paris, France |
Abbot Joseph Marie Terray (1715 – 18 February 1778) was a
Louis XV of France, an agent of fiscal reform.[1]
Biography
Terray,
Étienne François, duc de Choiseul the very next year by demonstrating that the government could not afford to go to war with Great Britain. "Intelligent, plain-speaking, hard-working and rich",[4] Terray spent the next few years stabilizing the finances of the country by repudiating part of the national debt, suspending payments on the interest on government bonds, and levying forced loans. These reforms aroused mass protest among nobles and commoners alike, which forced Maupeou to strip the Parlements
of their political power in 1771, so that further reforms could be enacted.
Terray continued his overhaul of the financial system by reforming the collection of both the Louis XVI bowed to pressure and dismissed both Terray and Maupeou.[6]
Patron of the arts
Terray's position enabled him to become a lavish patron of the arts. His rebuilding of his Clodion.[16]
After his death, the collection was dispersed by his nephew at auction in 1779.[17]
References
- ^ "Joseph-Marie Terray (1715-1778)". Bibliothèque nationale de France. Retrieved 16 February 2020.
- ^ Charles du Rozier, in Dictionnaire de la conversation et de la lecture inventaire, s.v. "Terray (Joseph-Marie)".
- ^ Choiseul, Mèmoires: "Intrigue de l'abbé Terray, de Madame du Barry et du duc d'Aiguillon pour me renvoyer du ministère".
- ^ Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, The Ancien Régime: a history of France, 1610-1774 1998:144.
- S2CID 153831273.
- ^ Napoleon Bonaparte, "Notes diverses tirées des mémoires de l'abbé Terray," Napoleon: Manuscrits inédits, 1786-1791 publiés d’après les originaux autographes par Frédéric Masson et Guido Biagi (Paris: Société d’Éditions Littéraires et Artistiques, 1910), 236-238.
- ^ Colin B. Bailey, Patriotic taste: collecting modern art in pre-revolutionary Paris, 2002:267
- ^ Henri Gourdon de Genouillac, Paris à Travers les Siècles, vol. 3:357; Jetta Sophia Wolff , Historic Paris, 1921:315.
- ^ Noted in Commission du vieux Paris. Procès-verbaux 1905:307
- Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, was included in the exhibition The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: masterpieces of French genre, National Gallery of Canada, 2003, cat. no 96.
- ^ Included in the exhibition The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: masterpieces of French genre, National Gallery of Canada, 2003, cat. nos. 89, 90.
- ^ Philip Conisbee, Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1714-1789 (exhibition catalogue, Iveagh Bequest, Kenwood, London) 1976; "the choice of subject... emanating surely from Terray's office and not from a proposal by the artist - is clearly a didactic one, extolling the virtues of trade and agriculture, and the royal system of customs and excise" (Philip Conisbee, in The Age of Watteau, Chardin, and Fragonard: masterpieces of French genre, exhibition catalogue, National Gallery of Canada 2003, s.v. cat. no. 96).
- ^ Conisbee 2005; for Terray's reputation as a corrupt speculator, see Rozier, in Dictionnaire.
- ^ It has been identified with a sculpture at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (John Goldsmith Phillips).
- ^ It was lent to the Exposition de l'art français, 1888 (no. 213), by the comtesse Terray, and noted as stamped B.V.R.B. by Lady Dilke, French Furniture and Decoration in the XVIIIth Century 1901:161 and note.
- ^ Michael Levey, Painting and Sculpture in France 1700-1789 1995:151
- ^ Catalogue d'une belle collection... provenant de la succession du feu M. L'Abbé Terray, F.-C. Joullain fils Paris 1778 (the sale took place 20 January 1779); noted in Ulrich Middeldorf, Sculptures from the Samuel H. Kress Collection, 1976:106.