1780 ca, FRANCE: The french politician JACQUES NECKER (1732 1804). Was a Swiss banker who became a French statesman and finance minister for Louis XVI. He held the finance post during the period 1777-1781 and helped make decisions that were critical in creating political and social conditions that contributed to the outbreak of the French Revolution in 1789. His elder brother was the mathematician Louis Necker (1730 -1804). Her daughter was the celebrated writer MADAME DE STAEL (Germaine de Staël, 1766 1817)