bureaucracy

is a term coined in the mid-19th century as a satirical pejorative, playing off the idea the the government of france at the time had transformed into a mere tyranny of professional offices.

It was coined in the mid-18th century by the French economist Jacques Claude Marie Vincent de Gournay,[18] and was a satirical pejorative from the outset.[19] Gournay never wrote the term down, but was later quoted at length in a letter from a contemporary: The late M. de Gournay. . . sometimes used to say: 'We have an illness in France which bids fair to play havoc with us... this illness is called bureaumania.' Sometimes he used to invent a fourth or fifth form of government under the heading of 'bureaucracy.' Baron von Grimm[10] (wikipedia)

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Jacques Claude De Gournay