Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud

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Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud (born April 16, 1719 in Paris , † February 1, 1804 ) was a French lawyer, economist and encyclopaedist .

Live and act

He was the son of a lawyer at the court in Paris, conseils à Paris and on his mother's side the nephew of Pierre Gassendi . Orphaned at sixteen, he studied law , following the advice of two uncles. In 1747 he was promoted to Doctor iurisprudentiae .

Through his enthusiasm for music, he met his first wife, an Italian singer. In 1752 his wife died and he did not remarry until 1772, a Demoiselle de Fer. He was in correspondence with Claude-Emmanuel de Pastoret and Georges Cuvier and was a member of the Société des observateurs de l'homme .

In 1774 he was appointed Professor of Law, Droit de la Nature et des Gens at the Collège de France .

For the Encyclopédie by Denis Diderot and Jean-Baptiste le Rond d'Alembert , he wrote an article on the terms Articles , Concile , Décret and Décrétales dans l'Encyclopédie .

Bouchard was an honorary member of the Académie d'Arras .

Works (selection)

  • Commentaire sur la loi des Douze Tables, dédié au roi Mars 1788. Tome III, pp. 103-117
  • Théorie des traités de commerce entre les nations. Paris, 1773.

Web links

Wikisource: Mathieu-Antoine Bouchaud  - Sources and full texts (French)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Histoire et mémoires de l'Institut Royal de France. Vol 1 Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres 1815 p. 300 ff.
  2. ^ Bouteiller M .: La Société des Observateurs de l'Homme (1800-1805), ancêtre de la Société d'Anthropologie de Paris Bulletins et Mémoires de la Société d'anthropologie de Paris Année 1956 Volume 7 Numéro 7-5-6 pp 448-465
  3. ↑ Frank A. Kafker: Notices sur les auteurs of dix-sept volumes de "discours" de l'Encyclopédie. Recherches sur Diderot et sur l'Encyclopédie Year (1989) Volume 7 Issue 7 p. 131
  4. ↑ Biography on the website of the Comité des travaux historiques et scientifiques .
personal data
SURNAME Bouchaud, Mathieu-Antoine
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bouchaud, Mathieu Antoine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French lawyer, economist and encyclopedist
DATE OF BIRTH April 16, 1719
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH February 1, 1804