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See also:FOULLON, See also:JOSEPH See also:FRANCOIS (1717—1789) , See also:French See also:administrator, was See also:born at See also:Saumur. During the Seven Years' See also:War he was See also:intendant-See also:general of the armies, and intendant of the See also:army and See also:navy under See also:Marshal de Belle-Isle. In 1771 he was appointedintendant of finances. In 1789, when See also:Necker was dismissed, Foullon was appointed See also:minister of the See also:- KING
- KING (O. Eng. cyning, abbreviated into cyng, cing; cf. O. H. G. chun- kuning, chun- kunig, M.H.G. kiinic, kiinec, kiinc, Mod. Ger. Konig, O. Norse konungr, kongr, Swed. konung, kung)
- KING [OF OCKHAM], PETER KING, 1ST BARON (1669-1734)
- KING, CHARLES WILLIAM (1818-1888)
- KING, CLARENCE (1842–1901)
- KING, EDWARD (1612–1637)
- KING, EDWARD (1829–1910)
- KING, HENRY (1591-1669)
- KING, RUFUS (1755–1827)
- KING, THOMAS (1730–1805)
- KING, WILLIAM (1650-1729)
- KING, WILLIAM (1663–1712)
king's See also:household, and was thought of by the reactionary party as a substitute. But he was unpopular on all sides. The farmers-general detested him on See also:account of his severity, the Parisians on account of his See also:wealth accumulated in utter indifference to the sufferings of the poor; he was reported, probably quite without See also:foundation, to have said, " If the See also:people cannot get See also:bread, let them eat See also:hay." After the taking of the See also:Bastille on the 14th of See also:July, he withdrew to his See also:estate at Vitry and attempted to spread the See also:news of his See also:death; but he was recognized, taken to See also:Paris, carried off with a bundle of hay tied to his back to the hotel de ville, and, in spite of the intervention of See also:Lafayette, was dragged out by the populace
and hanged to a See also:lamp-See also:post on the 22nd of July 1789.
See See also:Eugene Bonnemere, Histoire See also:des paysans (4th ed., 1887), tome iii. ;,C. L. Chassin, See also:Les Elections et les cahiers de Paris en 1789. (Paris, 1889), tomes iii. and iv.
End of Article: FOULLON, JOSEPH FRANCOIS (1717—1789)
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