“Qu’on aime à contempler les larmes d’un grand Homme!” Jacques Necker, a sensitive author

Jacques Necker is mostly known as Louis XVI’s minister, but this politician is also a litereray man, and, more precisly, a sentient writer. On his texts written between 1769 and 1787, this stagyinf of his self must be construed beyond the imputation of selfishness: this stance is the driving force of his writing, in order to propose a new manner of exercising the power, with sensitivity, without naivety.