"Eripuit Coelo fulmen, mox Sceptra Tyrannis."
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He snatched lightning from the sky and scepters from tyrants.
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Anne Robert Jacques Turgot
Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, Baron de Laune (10 May 1727 β 18 March 1781), usually referred to as simply "Turgot", was a French economist and statesman.
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