François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais

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François Véron Duverger de Forbonnais (born October 3, 1722 in Le Mans , † September 19, 1800 in Paris ) was a French economist and encyclopedist .

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Elemens du commerce , 1754

His father was a mousseline producer. He received a Jansenistic school education at a Paris college. Travels took him to Spain and Italy. De Forbonnais studied in Paris. In 1756 he was appointed inspector général des monnaies . In 1759 rose to personal advisor to the king, Louis XV. , on. More precisely, he was Conseiller au parlement de Metz to the court in Metz . He fell in this capacity in 1763 after he had enacted a 15% import tax. Forbonnai's first publication was published in 1750 and was a commentary on the economic considerations of Montesquieu L'Esprit des lois . He was also director of the Journal de l'agriculture, du commerce et des finances from 1760. In 1753 Forbonnais translated two important mercantilist writings into French, a publication by the Spanish mercantilist Jerónimo de Uztáriz (1670-1732) and an Englishman Charles King (1687-1748), Chamber Keeper to the Treasury . He was a friend of Jacques Paulze (1723-1794) a principal tenant ( Fermier général ) and father of Marie-Anne Pierrette Paulze Lavoisier . Forbonnais wrote several articles for the Encyclopédie and became France's leading economist.

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literature

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Jürgen Oelkers: Introduction: "Enlightenment", light and knowledge. (2007) p. 250 ( Memento of the original dated December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.ife.uzh.ch
  2. ^ Mark Goldie; Robert Wokler (Ed.): The Cambridge History of Eighteenth-Century Political Thought. Cambridge University Press (2006) p. 735.
  3. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Année (1989) Volume 7 Numéro 7 p. 141
  4. ↑ Wikisource, English language
  5. ^ Jean-Pierre Poirier: Lavoisier: Chemist, Biologist, Economist. Chemical Sciences in Society. University of Pennsylvania Press, Reprint (1998) ISBN 0-8122-1649-0 p. 41
personal data
SURNAME Forbonnais, François Véron Duverger de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Véron Duverger de Forbonnais, François
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French economist, encyclopaedist
DATE OF BIRTH October 3, 1722
PLACE OF BIRTH Le Mans
DATE OF DEATH September 19, 1800
Place of death Paris