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It was characteristic of the man that, as soon as he thought his fortune sufficient, he gave up his post of farmer-general, and retired to an estate in the country, where he employed his large means in the relief of the poor, the encouragement of agriculture and the development of industries.

At the age of twenty-three, at the queen’s request, he was appointed farmer-general, a post of great responsibility and dignity worth a 100,000 crowns a year.

His father, a farmer-general of taxes, was a man of literary tastes, and young H�nault obtained a good education at the Jesuit college.

He was a farmer-general of the taxes, and amassed an immense fortune by grinding the poor.

Ultimately, continues the report, she "accepted the propositions" of the wealthy farmer-general, La Popelini�re, who posed as a patron of the arts, and, through his influence, mounted the stage of the Palais-Royal.