The Financial Crisis and the Revolution : Jacques Necker and mutations in the political economy in the end of 18th century

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A series of articles which demonstrates close relations between Necker's reform of the French Company of India (1763-1770) and Raynal's "Histoire des deux Indes" (three successive editions in 1770, 1774, 1780) should be noticed as a principal fruit of this research : in this regards, we have also shown that the reform of French monarchy proposed by Necker during his first ministry (1776-1781) has been also based on the trinity of Political representation-Public Opinion-Public Credit, as it was the case in the reform of the Compagny of India, and that Diderot, though close to Necker and Raynal at the end of the 1770s, proclaims more radically the establishment of the political representation of the land-owners in the perspective of the restauration of public finance in France, without hesitating before the abolishment of the society of order : in our view, this Diderot's case clearly indicates the way that leads from the Enlightenment to the French Revolution.