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Terray, Abbé
The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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"dissolute financier" of Louis XV.; "paying eightpence in the shilling, so that wits exclaim in some press at the play-house, 'Where is Abbé Terray that he might reduce it to two-thirds!'"; lived a scandalous life, and ingratiated himself with Madame Pompadour; he held his post till the accession of Louis XVI., and fell with his iniquitous colleagues (1715-1778).
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Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Terray, Abbé'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/terray-abbac.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
Wood, James, ed. Entry for 'Terray, Abbé'. The Nuttall Encyclopedia. https://www.studylight.org/encyclopedias/eng/nut/t/terray-abbac.html. Frederick Warne & Co Ltd. London. 1900.
