page_title: Michel-Étienne Turgot
hierarchical_section_title: Michel-Étienne Turgot
caption_attribution_description: Portrait of Michel-Étienne Turgot (1690–1751)
context_page_description: Michel-Étienne Turgot was prévôt des marchands de Paris from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated with one of the most famous maps of Paris, the "Plan de Turgot", a detailed bird's-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739.
  Michel-Étienne Turgot was the father of the famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, economist and Minister of Louis XVI and Étienne-François Turgot, naturalist, administrator of Malta and governor of French Guiana. Son and father were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris.
context_section_description: Michel-Étienne Turgot (/tʊərˈɡoʊ/; French: [tyʁgo]; 9 June 1690, Paris – 1 February 1751, Paris) was prévôt des marchands de Paris ("Master of the merchants of Paris", i.e. Mayor of Paris) from 1729 to 1740. His name is associated with one of the most famous maps of Paris, the  "Plan de Turgot" ("Turgot Map"), a detailed bird's-eye view of Paris realized by Louis Bretez from 1734 to 1739.
  Michel-Étienne Turgot was the father of the famous Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, economist and Minister of Louis XVI and Étienne-François Turgot, naturalist, administrator of Malta and governor of French Guiana. Son and father were buried in the Chapel of Hôpital Laënnec in Paris.
caption: Michel-Etienne Turgo, by Van Loo, 1739.
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