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Acknowledgments Introduction 1. Recalled to life king, queen, and first minister: the Guines affair 2. The question of reform: Turgot, Necker, and Vergennes 3. Vergennes as first minister: the comite des finances 4. The fall of the comite des finances: the comite and credit policy the crisis of the caisse d'escompte the reform of the general farm conclusion 5. The politics of judicial reform 6. The politics of retrenchment 7. The ministry, its divisions, and the parlement of Paris, 1785-1786 the diamond necklace affair 8. The Dutch imbroglio 9. Death and posterity Bibliography.