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You will remember that it is on the strength of your promises that I undertake a burden perhaps beyond my strength; that it is to you personally, to the honest man, to the just and good man, rather than to the king, that I commit myself." It is to the honor of Louis XVI.

that the virtuous men who served him, often with sorrow and without hoping anything from their efforts, always preserved their confidence in his intentions.

"It is quite encouraging," wrote M.Turgot to one of his friends, "to have to serve a king who is really an honest and a well-meaning man." The burden of the necessary reforms was beyond the strength of the minister as well as of the sovereign; the violence of opposing currents was soon about to paralyze their genuine efforts and their generous hopes.
M.Turgot set to work at once.

Whilst governing his district of Limoges, he had matured numerous plans and shaped extensive theories.