Jean-Baptiste de Machault d'Arnouville

Jean Baptiste de Machault d' Arnouville ( born December 13, 1701 Paris, † July 12, 1794 ibid ) was from 1745 to 1754 Controller-General of Finance, contrôleur général des finances during the reign of Louis XV ..

Life and work

He was the third son of Louis -Charles de Machault d' Arnouville (1667-1750), the lieutenant général de police and his wife Françoise Élisabeth Milon ( 1680-1720 ).

He married in 1737 in Paris, Genevieve Louise rouille du Coudray ( 1717-1794 ), daughter of rouille Hilaire du Coudray. They had four sons; Louis (1737-1820), Bishop of Amiens; Armand (1739-1827), a colonel, colonel de Languedoc- Dragons; Alexandre Jean Baptiste (* 1741) and Charles ( 1747-1830 ).

Jean Baptiste de Machault d' Arnouville succeeded as Controller-General of Finance to improve the situation of the state budget according to the stresses of the Austrian Succession War. In 1749, the Dixième ( the tithe ), which was collected for the duration of the war, was replaced by the Vingtième ( Twentieth ). The Vingtième was a tax that taxed the net assets of all Frenchmen with five percent taxes. A distinction was made on the origin of the payment of money, where real estate was particularly heavily taxed. Many members of the Paris Parliament were severely affected by this tax, so they remonstrierten on May 5, 1749 against the edict. The provincial parliaments followed the complaints of the Paris Parliament. It was only under pressure from the king's edict was registered on 19 May by the Parliament of Paris. In 1751 the clergy preferential taxation was obtained during the survey of vingtième.

Machault achieved a significant increase in the state budget. This amounted in 1751 to 255 million livres in 1752 to 265 million livres, which accounted for an income increase of 50 million compared to 1740. 1749 Machault became the Minister of State and in 1750 was appointed Keeper of the Seals. On February 1, 1750 dismissed Louis XV. initially, 1754-1757 him he still served as Secretary of State for Marine Affairs ( Secretary of the Navy ).