Portrait of de Calonne by Élisabeth-Louise Vigée-Le Brun (1784; London, Royal Collection).
Louis XVI dismissed Calonne in 1787 and exiled him to Lorraine. The joy was general in Paris, where Calonne, accused of wishing to raise taxes, was known as Monsieur Déficit. Calonne soon afterwards left for Great Britain, and during his residence there kept up a polemical correspondence with Necker. After being dismissed, Calonne stated, "The King, who assured me a hundred times that he would support me with unshakable firmness, abandoned me, and I succumbed.”
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