His father was from Küstrin, in modern-day Poland, and he quickly got experience in the banking world, establishing a firm with Thellusson. He served for a time as director of the French East India Company, and among his notable feats in office was the quelling of the rebellion of the Dauphiné by legalizing its assembly. His first of many dismissals from office came after he published his Compte Rendu in 1781, and he was ousted again in 1786, and most famously on July 11, 1789, an event which led to the storming of the Bastille. FTP, name this 
His father was from Küstrin, in modern-day Poland, and he quickly got experience in the banking world, establishing a firm with Thellusson. He served for a time as director of the French East India Company, and among his notable feats in office was the quelling of the rebellion of the Dauphiné by legalizing its assembly. His first of many dismissals from office came after he published his Compte Rendu in 1781, and he was ousted again in 1786, and most famously on July 11, 1789, an event which led to the storming of the Bastille. FTP, name this Swiss born finance minister during the reign of Louis XVI.
His father was from Küstrin, in modern-day Poland, and he quickly got experience in the banking world, establishing a firm with Thellusson.