Necker
JACQUES, a French statesman; born in Geneva, Switzerland, Sept. 30, 1732. He went to Paris at an early 30, 1732. He went to age, obtained employment in a banking house, in which he rose to a partnership, and in 13 years, having made a number of successful speculations, retired from business with a large fortune. The Revolution, which all his efforts were unable to check, obliged him to retire to Switzerland. Necker wrote three volumes on the finances of France, a book on the influence of religious opinions, and other works. He married the daughter of a Protestant clergyman, by whom he had a daughter, Madame de Staël- Holstein, the wife of the Swedish ambassador. She afterward became celebrated by the name of Madame de Staël. He died in Coppet, Switzerland, April 9, 1804.